The New Firefox Browser Won Me Over Again after 10 Years

Mozilla Firefox has risen from the ashes…

Sithara Ariyarathna
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Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

I was a Firefox user. I was a loving Firefox user when I started using the internet. After first installing the internet on my house way back in 2007, the first thing I did was to open Internet Explorer and download Firefox. I was 12 years old back then and my favorite computer magazines bombarded Mozilla Firefox with praise those days. It was open-source, and it was so much better and more secure than the only other option then, Internet Explorer. And I loved the logo.

But once Google Chrome was introduced a few years later, I just shot up the ranks. I was not intending to replace Firefox by any means, but just I wanted to test this new item that was increasingly becoming popular. And even without knowing it, I became a ‘Chromer’. I betrayed and forgot my beloved Firefox browser as did over 80% of other Firefox users. They didn’t deserve it, to be honest. Mozilla Firefox was a fast, secure, and aesthetically pleasing browser that did many things right. But unfortunately (for Firefox) Chrome did more. And its market share fell from 23.75% in 2012 to a mere 3.6% in 2020, when Chrome is soaring past 60%.

But I — as many do — always had a soft spot for Firefox browser. From time to time I download Firefox just to see whether I can…

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Sithara Ariyarathna
ILLUMINATION

An avid reader, a writer on technology, life style and productivity and a keen follower of cricket