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.
obviously… my question is what is their reason of having it installed when they don’t bother using it? They just keep using Chrome or Edge despite having Firefox installed. What is the reason/use case for Firefox then for someone who just uses Chrome?
Privacy or open source or non chromium based do not count as reasons because none of those are a thing that a tech illiterate chrome user would be aware of.
Tech illiterate here: I used to keep it as a backup for when my two hundred tabs of chrome would freeze (tech. illiterate.), but switched after a while because it was faster. I do kinda care about privacy, but not enough to sacrifice much convenience (I’d never get Alexa, but I play Pokémon go, if that is helpful), so Firefox being faster than chrome is perfect.