Let’s take advantage of the fact that we are so small! Say hi and tell us how you started using Firefox!

  • BendyLemmy@fedia.io
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    1 year ago

    • When I started, Netscape was wonderful. I loved the toolbars with the ‘drag’ bars which you could click to collapse… so much better than IE.

    • When I moved to Thailand, internet shops started up - using Windows 98 for a while there.

    Opera browser and Firefox were really good viable options. Opera had super smooth mouse gestures and was better for a while - but in the long run Firefox was more reliable.

    Chrome took over for a number of years, but Firefox later became my ‘default’ (though still not most-used) browser.

    About 5 years ago when I moved over to Manjaro KDE, I liked their theming for Firefox (I dropped it now, but still…) and just found very very few reasons to fire up another browser.

    KDE with X11 desktop has mouse gestures built in, so it no longer matters in that regard if I use Firefox, or anything else (even text editors) because many shortcuts are now almost consistent across all softwares… I can close, reopen and navigate tabs in Dolphin file browser the same as with Firefox.

  • heyfluxay@nerdbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Man… I don’t remember specifically when I started using Firefox, but it was up until Chrome first was released and then I was stuck in the Chromium and its offshoots ever since.

    I recently came back only as of…last year and made it a point to get away from a lot of Google junk, as well as negative social media experiences!