Currently a university student, and somewhat frequently, I see Firefox installed on people’s laptops but they also have Chrome installed and are using Chrome, or Edge, or Safari. Rarely do I see Firefox actually being used but I see it installed frequently. Does anyone have a clue as to why they have it installed?
Yea I know Chromium monopoly and open source browser and whatnot but the average Andy does not know what any of that is.
It’s tough to answer with anything nontechnical… Best I can cook up off the top of my head is that we all expect the internet to work the same, whether we’re visiting YouTube, or a blog, or… Whatever.
How are those pages coded? Like any human language, we all agreed on what certain mouth sounds mean and do, and don’t agree with just one person getting to define how the language works.
Similarly, why does only Google/chrome get to define how a website’s code works? I don’t know how old you are, but there was a time where sites were just broken based on if you’d used Internet explorer 6, or literally anything else.
Lot of background, but that’s why we care about which browser engine to use. Firefox uses less ram, follows the web’s standards better, and actually gives you control in a way Mozilla can’t undo.