Tfw firefox is dying

tab groups was pretty good

Am I the only one that likes firefox?

It's almost like everyone realized that if all the Firefox devs are going to do is copy chrome they might as well just install chrome

Multi thread

no. it's pretty comfy desu

mfw opera steady growth

Why the fuck did they remove the addon bar? Yes, I know you can add it back but it was retarded of them to remove it in the first place.

project that graph out a few hundred years and then see who's on top

>that many people on the botnet

People still use Opera. It will be okay.

Should have tried focusing on fixing issues, stop running in a single process 8 years after everyone else and implementing the internet standards they were 3 years behind instead of making phones for poo in loos.

muh addons and i've been using it as my browser since forever, so no, me too.

They are trying to be chrome, but their core demographic doesn't want it to be chrome and chrome people aren't going to switch to an inferior chrome.

i like firefox back before they started doing stupid shit. The moment they removed the option to have a custom newtab page without an addon was what broke the deal for me so now I use icecat

>tfw not even being sad
everything chromium based is simply superior...
every web dev will agree

Die soon user.

tfw switched to Firefox from chrome because it was eating all my fucking memory

It's becoming as shitty as Chrome, so people would just as well use the Chrome that's not an unstable memory hog.

Which is pretty funny since firefox is a memory hog (which they won't fix because it's a "feature").

FLAC support in Firefox will save it.

Her tongue is too small.

maybe mozilla will wake the fuck up and stop trying to cater to their imaginary retard users

>hmmm we need to take away more control so they don't hurt themselves
>who's they?
>oh, they don't know how to use computers, their kids installed firefox for them.
>all of those people are using chrome because norton installed it for them
>lalala can't hear you

>Duplicating more features of native OS software in the browser will improve the browser

how about you use dedicated software instead of a wannabe OS

browsers are the new emacs

What's the best version of Firefox
Can I go back to a better time?

It is, but it doesn't randomly leak memory and eat up 8GB like chrome used to. Although I really should switch back since I did a new build with more ram

Been using firefox since 2005, refuse to switch to the infinite jew or the african jew. Don't know why I would go back to IE or start using opera after all this time. I'm going down with this fucking ship.

i still use it then again im one of those weirdos that hate google passionately

the real surprise is how opera is still kicking

Anything more up to date with edge included?

I will continue to use it until it's literally UNUSABLE.

firefox was never gut you fig

servo when?

What are you talking about? You do have add-on on new tab page

>not using pale moon
It even doesn't have shitty australius

It's the best PC browser I used. Fast, reliable, doesn't waste too many resources, has tons of addons.
I hate it on Android. Slow, unreliable, crashes a lot.

Firefox is dying because they're killing themselves with bullshit, turning away from functionality towards SJW happy feelings and the dumb ideas and useless bullshit that comes with employing idiots

fucking this

Chrome is objectively the best once you get over the >le FIBI is spying on us hurr durr NSA botnet hurrrrrr
Unfortunately most of Cred Forumstards are permanently in that childish phase and never grow up, like their toe-jam-eating pedophile idol

i remember Firefox 3.5 being bretty gud. i believe it was version 4 that introduced HTML5 support and that's when version numbers just flew skyward (Chrome's influence)

Opera is much better

>Chrome is objectively the best
That's objectively wrong.
Chrome does some things better, Firefox does other things better.
For the average user both are good enough and they wouldn't even notice a difference.

Opera is just a Chinese Chromium fork, it's pretty much the same browser.

what browser is "mobile vs desktop"?

Google abused their near monopoly to push Chrome, this should be illegal

I don't have a problem with Chrome so if everyone else is just worse Chrome, why would I use them?

>dropped tab groups
why in the fuck
I was wondering why I couldn't find it

At the end of the day stuff like this is going to happen, it's how this system works.

Normal people are too busy with their job/family to keep up with all this nerdy stuff, so they'll just use whatever is advertised more aggressively.

This is actually the "standard" now a google do this too. Maybe this is why opera left the game.

Pale Moon has no improvements except of integrated furry porn.

It just feels slower than Chrome.

I like it very much, but I always fall back to Chrome because it's just faster.

>tfw I regularly switch to Firefox because Chrome overheats my computer and forces it to reboot

Chrome is just better than Firefox.

Seriously Firefox is so fucking slow compared to Chrome.

I only ever switch to Firefox when I'm bored by Chrome's bland, non-customizable design or need one of the extensions that aren't available for Chrome

>Firefox is so fucking slow compared to Chrome
It's in your mind.

good
open sores garbage btfo

This.

it's the normies' fault

name a single normie that doesn't use chrome or safari

you can't

they're all fucking stupid and everybody fell for the chrome meme when google started aggressively pushing it on everybody

you can even clearly see the parallel between the growth of mobile and chome vs decline of firefox, mobile is the domain of normies

people complain firefox is slow, well no fucking shit if chrome was as customizable as firefox is (hint: about:config and actual useful addons) then chrome would also be 0.5s slower than it is now

yeah that's right, 0.5s slower
damn i could get so much shit done in those 0.5 seconds
man what a waste of time, i'd better install google's spyware or use a fucking ancient relic of a web browser that is safari that can't even open webms because applel is still stuck in fucking 2007

normies are the cancer of tech

Mozilla is cancer anyway and I'll be glad to see them die. It's just unfortunate that a corporation as evil as google will be the one to kill them.

Should have switched to Safari.

>Have a great sleek fast browser with add on support.
>Literally no other mainstream browsers besides you and IE.
>IE is shat on universally and you keep gaining more users and popularity.
>Google launches official browser and markets it heavily.
>Instead of adding useful features for standard and power users and improving stability and speed.
>Lets keep releasing new versions of that shit like everyday is Christmas while making changes no body asked for and fucking up the layout every few releases.
>Oh yeah nigga Pocket and in browser chat use that shit.
>And by the way you need to update Flash and Java, I took the liberty of disabling them for you.

Only reason I still use Firefox is for Vimperator (Chrome's version sucks).
It's slow and gets worse with every version.

>Meanwhile, you still have to hex Chrome after every update so it doesn't whine about non-store extensions

>>Instead of adding useful features for standard and power users and improving stability and speed.
>what's about:config
>what's shift+F2 command line
>what's e10

>>Lets keep releasing new versions of that shit like everyday is Christmas while making changes no body asked for and fucking up the layout every few releases.
>what are security patches and fixes
>what's classic theme restorer

>>Oh yeah nigga Pocket and in browser chat use that shit.
>about:config
>loop.enabled -> false
>extensions.pocket.enabled -> false

>>And by the way you need to update Flash and Java, I took the liberty of disabling them for you.
And how's this bad? Obviously a fucking normie is going to find this annoying, but from security standpoint it's good that they disable them if they're outdated and insecure.

>wanting SJWfox on your pc
archive.is/PDSEZ

No it's not. Nobody other than windows 10 users experience Firefox lag.

I'm a Linux user.
Firefox is a good deal slower on a weak pc than Chromium (or other webkit-based browsers)

I just want my FF 3.6 back ;__;

>implying other SV companies don't have the same bullshit

>most people use 6+ year old computers as their main desktop PC

>d-do i fit in yet guys?

Tons of people use cheap laptops with netbook-tier processors.

>if I pretend its alright it'll stop being a problem
>better insult anyone who threatens my delusion

Been using Firefox exclusively for the last 10 years. I tried Chrome once google started bundling it with literally every popular software at that time. I'm pretty sure you all remember this when installing something even completely unrelated to Google
Also install Google Chrome
Make it my default browser

hi miles

Pale meme looks like shit

I'm very high

Mozilla is getting their just desserts. They're probably sitting there scratching their heads wondering what went wrong.

Back in the day, Firefox was absolutely god tier. Then they went full fucking retard. It was like watching the GNOME 3 debacle all over again. The only good thing that happened since their tardshift was making Firefox automatically save your session and load your tabs when opening the browser. Pretty much everything else they've done in the past few years has been useless bullshit or removing features that people liked. And all of it in the name of switching Firefox to multi-process: a change that none of us really needed.

I switched to Palemoon almost a year ago now, and I know this can't last forever, but I really wish it could. I have to prepare myself for a move to a real browser but there's really no valid alternative.

Yandex

Good thing it takes minor tweaks to customize then!

Same here, but now icecat keeps falling apart too.

Especially for sites like facebook it can't display any of their images, and I need facebook groups for uni.
It just blocks some https protocols by default and no matter what I change in about:config it doesn't help.

When I use the same config with the latest firefox it works.

I wish there a browser that just worked without annoying me.

Chrome/Chromium will eat up all your memory on a weak PC.

>tfw i don't care

who /cyberfox/ here

Firefox and its forks are still the only decent open source browsers with no ties to Google, and as long as that remains the case, it's the only choice.

>he's too stupid to set up group policy

>New Chrome update made the tabs bigger and included pointless animations (e.g. a ripple(?) effect appears when you press the refresh button or close the huge ass download bar)
Is it possible to disable that trash and make the tabs smaller?

here
Just tried this browser, everything seems to work. Thank you user.
Time to ditch icecat.

Guess I'll try reposting this here.

So I decided to give new Opera a go. How do you change it so the tabs and menu button are on the same line in the new one? I know the method on the right worked in 12.16. Also, is there any way to get rid of the crap on blank tab pages?

Still no skins available in the new one either, right? That's a little disappointing.

Post your Pale moon then. I've never seen somebody with a good-looking Pale moon setup.

>Back in the day, Firefox was absolutely god tier.
No, back in the day Firefox was a slow, ugly, insecure, unstable, vanilla browser with a memory leak issue whose only claims to fame were that it had tabs and you could install an adblocker, and even with those it still wouldn't have gone anywhere if IE hadn't been even worse.

Chrome came along and redid the UI, throwing out Windows defaults to achieve tabs-on-top superiority and opening up a noticeable amount of screen real estate. They gave us the simplicity of the omnibox. They gave us speed, stability, and security. And we still have extensions.

Firefox is Windows 98 software in a Windows 10 world, and that just doesn't work in an internet browser.

I like Firefox's live bookmarks too much to use anything else. There was some Chrome extension that replicated them, but it was a pile of shit and you had to manually refresh the lists and half the time it didn't even work.

No Its not, Its the Mozilla foundation fault for submitting to the SJW agenda.

They are more worried about diversity in tech and offensive programming languages that make the use of master and slave instead of improving their products.

>he thinks Firefox has anywhere near the number or quality of add-ons as Chrome
Most Firefox add-ons look like Pajeet shit. Granted there are a few Chrome ones like that too, but there are less as a percent of total add-ons.

Lucky you

Chrome doesn't do that nowadays. It still splits shit into a bunch of processes but they only use up memory if you actually have it, and they get small again when you don't have the space.

Am I the only one who wants to headpat firefox-tan? She's so adorable.

is it that fucking difficult to introduce some customization to chrome? colorful tabs would already work wonders to make it look better.

>it's in your mind
That's why everyone who doesn't use Firefox just because he believes in the NSA bogeyman notices it.

Pro tip: that's all in your mind too

No other browser besides dead opera has tree style tabs which is the only thing I really need out of a browser.

It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't slow as fuck.
The only reason I'm sticking with it is because of Tree Style tabs tbqhwy

While I'll agree Chrome was very much needed to push the browser business forward, what you're describing as utter shit fits IE8 (or whichever version introduced tabs) more than any older version of Firefox.

Honestly you have a Windows 98 opinion in a Windows 10 world. Chrome lacks a ton of features present in Firefox and its extensions are nowhere near as good. Most of them don't even have alternatives on Chrome.

If you don't care about that, then great, but don't dismiss the competing browser as something completely useless just because it's not a product you'd use.

Firefox's waning popularity is the normies' fault though. I once had to repair a friend's laptop, installed Firefox on it with all the essential add-ons, 4 months later he complains his computer is slow. I take a look, firefox gone, replaced with chrome and all the other typical drive-by install software you get.

Honestly, we as a community might disagree with Mozilla's policies and their approach to "diversity", but in the end those who use Firefox for what it offers still use it (or a fork), while normies usually switch to the next popular thing that gets handed to them on a platter, in this case Chrome which in most cases gets installed with another program.

You do know Firefox is in the process of gutting their extension system in favor of a more Chrome-like extension system right?

Are they still going to do it? The initial announcement came over a year ago and there was a lot of negative reaction from some extension devs.

Like they give a shit. Mozilla thinks they know better than their customers. It's the same shit that happened with GNOME 3. They're going to shove their cock down your throat until you like it or escape the basement.

>Chrome lacks a ton of features present in Firefox

Security >>>>> useless features
Firefox is insecure by design to enable the easy addition of features without any thought. Chrome's features are pre-planned and purposely limited in scope to limit the attack surface and amount of code that needs to be maintained.
Guess which works better for an internet browser?

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Working_with_multiprocess_Firefox

>We expect to remove XUL and XPCOM from Firefox by the end of 2017. We hope this will give us enough time to help you migrate and provide APIs that are suitable for replacing the features you might lose once we stop supporting these legacy technologies. To prepare for XUL/XPCOM deprecation, you must migrate your add-on to either a WebExtension or to the Add-on SDK. When using the SDK, you should stick to its high-level APIs for e10s compatibility.

>I'm a constant target of direct attacks and have spies crawling through the vents in my house trying to hack my computer

The only way your browser will get "hacked" during normal use is if you stumble upon a page using a 0-day exploit or run some ancient, vulnerable release. PEBKAC

I know Chrome is sandboxed, but an unpatched sandbox won't protect you against a 0-day exploit that escapes the sandbox. Get over yourself.

Replacing thousands of addons isn't something you do over night user

Damn that's sad. Hopefully tree style tabs will still be a thing.

The Firefox model was weekly scans in Ad-aware with 999 threats detected.

This

The reason for firefox's decline in marketshare is probably mostly because chrome is better at advertising and distribution. Firefox has been "declining" in marketshare for like 6 years straight, it was probably kickstarted when chrome first got addons and devs no longer required firefox for complex functionality.

Anyone? Or is customization that locked down now?

The new Opera will never be what the old Opera was. Don't wait for things that will never be.

>than random spike for Opera at the end of 2013

does chrome have a decent bookmark side bar yet? Thats literally the only thing I am still using firefox for because there is no way to get it in chrome properly.

>longer required firefox for complex functionality
>look for addon that I use in firefox
>>we can't do this in chrome, so there's no alternative
ok

They shouldn't have made it shit.

>shit
It's not shit. Chrome uses less memory, so it's essential for PCs with low memory or PCs that are owned by retards.

Firefox handles things better if you have enough memory.

That said the main I use it is because it has a history button at the top.

I'll let autists worry about "security"

Move to Pale Moon friend.

Oh and Chrome's search is fucking useless which is ironic

>It's not shit. Chrome uses less memory, so it's essential for PCs with low memory or PCs that are owned by retards.

Is today opposite day or something?

Chrome is notorious for using an imperial shit-ton of memory.

>Mobile vs Desktop
What did they mean by this?

Firefox uses more

If you've used Chrome, it tends to only load the tab you're on.

I think the line represents mobile users as a percent of total browser users. So according to the graph, currently ~35% is mobile.

>Firefox uses more

idk man, from my experience it really fucking doesn't

not any more

I really wish firefox/mozilla would stop their current fuckery. I'm tired of patching vulns.

If I leave FF, itll be probably for some of its derivatives, but that won't happen anytime soon

Same here.

But a browser IS native OS software?

>browsers are the new emacs
If this were true it would be great. But it's not.
Also,
You don't know what you're talking about.

im a technie and i use chrome, the design is better, the performance is better and useful addons my ass, all the dev tools are chrome first nowadays. chrome is simply better, cope with and quit bitching about normies. if you can't convice customers to your product then it means that you are doing it wrong.

If you load up a tab Chrome spawns a process and that process consumes RAM. Lots of tabs = lots of RAM usage.

Firefox currently does not have that problem. Firefox does have a problem with addons not releasing RAM which is probably partly caused by its lax extension framework. Web Extensions and discontinuing the old extensions might finally put that problem to rest.

Chrome makes you work too hard. Needs a title bar and better bookmark system. Looks like shit.

>Nobody other than windows 10 users experience Firefox lag.
Probably MS planned it that way so we use their native browser.

I was wondering why firefox kept on crashing and was generally unstable. Turns out it was their hotfix which they added without my permission. Thanks, Mozilla.

what's worse is all these mobile niggers flooding the internet. these are people that were too daft to use computers, and now they are shitting up every website.

I occasionally switch between chrome & firefox, simply because neither satisfies me.

Firefox is what I would want to use due to the customizability, addons and features, but it is a buggy piece of shit once you use 4+ heavy addons and slow af compared to chrome.

And it's not like Mozilla will change anytime soon.

I'll stick to opera

he's actually right; it's in how firefox and chrome differ in displaying loaded doms. chrome repaints a shit ton more times, so the page can be perceived as loading faster. i forgot what the about:config settings are to make firefox load the same style as chrome, but it's up to you.

in about:config - nglayout.initialpaint.delay = 0

What is Firefox Hotfix 20160826.01 addon that just randomly showed up in my firefox?

It's a useful hotfix user. Just install it. Have a seat while it installs.

>gets btfo of his original argument
>"no you"

Doesn't work like that, bud. Get cucked, son.

wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Hotfix

Is that Nicolas Cage in the background?

>Is that Nicolas Cage in the background?

Son of a gun... I think you may be right user.

no you

>update firefox 28 to 36
>firefox can no longer work hard with more than 300 tabs
>because I'm a total autist who usually goes up to 800 tabs of images off Cred Forums before fucking saving and closing the tabs
>will now start to set itself on fire if you do too much shit with 500 tabs
>such as, large images usually 2000px+ in size loading slowly and turning black
>websites starting to black and fuck up
>images disappearing
>when webpages start to fuck up, as you scroll down what you just saw is repeated a bunch of times
>firefox no longer, if it did at all at version 28 because it actually fucking worked properly, allocates more than 3GB of RAM
>this means at a load of 3-500 tabs open (not open open, such as them being loaded and ready to view) the browser sits on 1.5GB of RAM
>as you open more tabs, the RAM usage rises
>firefox starts to crash and burn as you get towards 3GB of RAM, usually crashing at 2.9GB usage
>worst case scenario the browser decide it has more RAM to use at its expense, then crashes at 3.1GB of usage
It's fucking shit now

32bit applications are limited to 3GB or less, nothing about that is unique to firefox.

Don't reply to the bait, user.

>implying Safari isn't superior

>looking like windows 98 software is bad

I would rather have it look like that than the god awful excuse that passes for UI aesthetics these days.

>32bit applications are limited to 3GB or less
No. Shut the fuck up ignorant.

Any faggot SJW company will fail eventually

> update firefox 28 to 36
I'm lost in number versions.
How are you not?

>I've never worked in an office

I actually had to look up the version I was on before, truth be told

I'm using Vivaldi these days. Is this Cred Forums-approved?

On windows at least that's correct. I might be wrong on other systems but you can use 64bit firefox on other systems so the problem doesn't really occur there anyway unless you happen to be using an old as fuck computer.

blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askperf/2007/03/23/memory-management-demystifying-3gb/

Yeah, by making extensions so limited, you might as well use Chrome.

I do, lol.

I liked it, until it became so slow, Cred Forums literally froze it for ~10 seconds. Could be a problem with 4chanX though, but Vivaldi overall is faster, more responsive and it has vertical tabs, which more or less replaces TST.

Firefox is very comfy. It's unquestionably slower than Chrome, but Chrome's customization is so incredibly shit that it's not worth the tradeoff for me.

Some of Vivaldi is closed source, so no. Cred Forums gets into a frothing rage over it.

No, user, emacs is the new browser :^)

Not true. Mozilla is working on allowing Firefox's implementation of web extensions to modify the browser chrome which chromium's implementation likely wont ever support. They're using chromium's addon API as a base because it has everything they need already implemented by design and there's tons of addons already available for it. It's easier to use it as a base and build upon it than it is to just make their own incompatible thing that barely anyone would use.

maybe more important than not adding useless shit: not removing useful shit

and maybe also not failing to add useful shit

Firefox was good maybe 5 years ago. It just became shittier with every release after that: useless shit was added, useful shit was removed and the burden of implementation shifted to addon devs (which has a metric ton of downsides), and useful shit kept being delayed and never getting added.

I officially quit when that whole "replace master/slave in the docs and waste donated money on a gold-decorated office and macbooks" happened. I switched to chrome that same day, and I took my dozen addons with me.

When I got the email about chrome extension support in firefox being a thing, I laughed out loud at their pathetic attempt at damage control after the fact. It's a good thing that they want to support a single standard and reverse the xkcd comic, but it's also still pathetic that they become more and more of a pathetic excuse for a project as time goes on.

Will Firefox even have users left after screwing up everybody's addons?

Only addon I use regularly is ublock origin and it already works on chromium

>you boot up for about 6 minutes on your x40
>your sitting next to a pretty girl with an hp laptop covered in happy bunny profanity stickers
>her Firefox has a custom red and black theme with two toolbars of anime and video game bookmarks
>her friend sits next to you and opens a sleeping dell Inspiron with a glossy screen. Her Firefox is covered in pink and frilly white dots theme and her xp is riced to look like the Warcraft ui
>together the three of you spend the afternoon stumbling upon nsfw websites and buffering pixelated video streams of Korean soaps. After playing flash games in class and skyping all night, you go to sleep, gratiful for mozilla firefox.
>the year is 2006

Instantly dropped Firefox after LGBTgate. Never again.

>It's easier to use it as a base and build upon it than it is to just make their own incompatible thing that barely anyone would use.

But they already have one.

the only shill here is you

the sooner mozilla and firefox die the better, maybe then a new browser that isn't being developed by trannys and women, as a chrome imitation will arise

They're removing it though because it's shit and has become a hindrance.

>every single update makes the browser more similar to Chrome
>surprised went people just go for the original version instead

>firefox is dying

maybe giving the boot to the one leader who knew what he was doing, over gay fucking marriage wasn't such a good idea

my feel when firefox is now as fast as crome
this is how this made me feel

>mfw waterfox

I'm normie as fuck and I've used Firefox since the early 2000s.

I don't like any browser and I try to switch between them every few months.

>Continuous steady decline shown in graph before and after.
>Single event that fits my narrative is the cause.
Goddammit Cred Forums not everything is the jews.
>only most things.

nope; addons and easy access to chrome objects are the only thing keeping me with firefox. If I can't fully destroy and rebuild the ui without mucking the source, i'll move.

Here, but vanilla Firefox on linux

When is Midori going to stop being a piece of shit?

>FF was never able to beat IE

that's sad desu

It sadly is. Used Firefox since it was fucking called Phoenix. Yes, from the goddamn beginning. Over the last year I have struggled to stay with FF but I just can't do it and now have been forced to use fucking Chromium, which I hate but sadly there is nothing better.

Fuck you, FF, for going to shit.

WAKE ME UP

Edge is better than FF now

>Cred Forums right now
>market share = goodness, x fangirls on suicide watch
>Cred Forums two hours later
>being popular doesn't make something good fgt >>>/redfacebookgag/

Eventually we'll all switch to opera

>muh benchmarks

Meanwhile on /o/

"Top fuel dragsters are just better than F1 cars. Seriously, F1 cars are so fucking slow compared to top fuel dragsters. And don't get me started on luxury cars. Why don't you drive a top fuel dragster yet?"

No, normies would forget how to close it and blame it on the browser

Everything about chrome is designed with that kind of idiot in mind, so google maintains maximum reputation. Idiots may be idiots, but they tend to have more social clout than nerds, so making sure idiots can't complain and puttign the worries of nerds last is a viable strategy for managing your public image.

good now firefox can be more secure because hackers will see a profit by targeting chrome now.

*putting

>tfw the best browser already died

uer is edg?

>replace master/slave in the docs and waste donated money on a gold-decorated office and macbooks

please elaborate or maybe link?
posting from firefox, am I being cucked?

>use Chrome
>constantly uses all of my 8GB of RAM

>tfw you fell for the 8GB of RAM is enough meme
At least Chrome isn't shit

Your browsing habits are pure shit. Normal people have no problem using Chrome on a 4gb machine.

I literally just have a couple of Cred Forums tabs open.

Something is wrong here.

Atleast its not dying in germany

Like what? Maybe it's because I often have a few /wsg/ tabs open

They did it to themselves. While Chrome was gaining power, they were adding stupid shit to Firefox that nobody needs.

Wait, it's actually a web browser complete enough to watch a youtube video, not a lynx clone?

God damn it, emacs.

Yeah

He's using fucking chrome

It's embedding a web browser.

This is impossible on wayland and will never be anything except a feature specific to one quirky compositor that is also a semi-manual dynamic tiling WM with layouts defined in pure lambda calculus.

>leftists take over something
>it dies
this cycle repeats over and over and over in every area of life.

brave is the new firefox.

The decline started about 6-7 years ago when chromium was released and when people didn't care as much about SJWs. Clearly there's some other contributing factor at play here like maybe another web browser?

Its like AppchanX, its a broken piece of shit but you are too used to it to try anything else as long as it werks for ya