Firefox

to surf the web?

It's software used to browse the Internet.

It has a cooler logo than Chrome or IE.

a browser that won't cripple your machine. It used to be the opposite case, but the tables have turned.

Also, you can also use firefox on android and have all extensions (adblockers etc) available on your phone too!

Normies tend to absorb what's trendy among specialists, regardless of area, without necessarily absorbing why. They hear positive bits about firefox and negative bits about chrome, and add firefox.

It is wild how many people here are offended by me asking a simple question and down voting me. Privacy, open source, customization like CSS, extensions, etc those are all gibberish to non tech savvy users.

I'm trying to see a reason to use Firefox from the perspective of a person who has the mentality of "I got nothing to hide" and "computers are difficult" and love the Google services that come integrated into Chrome.

Normie here. I used Firefox with uBlock origin, then used Chrome on the same website.

Now I only use chrome when the website breaks in Firefox. Oh, and for Google services (mail, maps, calendar, docs)

Firefox has been my daily driver for five or six years now, and I think the only reason people still use chrome is habit. Getting people to change is hard, simply because habits have inertia.

Switching to Firefox was super easy for me. Just import all my bookmarks, passwords, etc and I was done. Completely set up in probably 5 minutes, including the installer.

I work in a university. Our web based services bork surprisingly frequently after Chrome updates and the IT Helpline's go-to response is 'have you tried ~~turning it off and on again~~ Firefox?'.

Privacy, Customization, better for Adblock. Or just to have a alternative if you’re main browser fails

They only know Edge because MS shills it hard and Chrome due to years of using it with OEM installs on Android, familiarity with Google services.

Since ads can be really terrible on mobile, then FF + uBO can be suggested to them.

Normies/tech illiterate people are lazy to uninstall software, they have no reason for that. Just look at their taskbar or desktop icons: a lot of useless crap. It was probably preinstalled, or they installed it for one reason, then just forgot about it.

If you know them, just ask. If you don't know them, don't assume people are tech illiterate just because they've made different software/hardware decisions from yourself.

Everybody except Richard Stallman is a normie. It's a stupid word and even dumber concept.

I have Firefox, Chrome, and Brave installed but use Firefox most of the time. I have Brave for websites that need chromium. I have chrome because I'm too lazy to uninstall it. I think you're probably looking too far into this. It's easy to install something. Disk space isn't really at a premium. They easily could've installed it in a whim.

Why not ask them directly if you're curious?

I've gotten most of my friends to switch to it by showing them cool customization features

Does Windows software still do that shit where they bundle a bunch of irrelevant crap with whatever you're trying to install? I don't think normies actively think about browser choice and I've definitely found browsers that were installed on systems via what I mentioned above in the past.

Having a browser that is not controlled by a company where YOU clearly are the product? Firefox works just fine. Is just as fast as chrome...

I have chrome installed too since there are websites that use features that only work in chrome or to test things. But that is like 0.1% of the time.

Unfortunately right now nothing over the default. Obviously is better than chrome but the default browser on any os is good enough for a tech illiterate. Maybe except for safari, that's the worst browser that I ever used in my life, it's too dumbed down

So they install it for see if it's that better, then when they notice it looks and behaves like Chrome without any evident different feature, they don't switch

I use Firefox with ad blockers to watch YouTube. Chrome seems to be allowing them to block my ad blocker

They hear someone recommend it, maybe on foot of a conversation about privacy concerns, and give it a try.

Doesn't mean they've got to grips with it, but if they haven't uninstalled it, they probably retain the intent to try.

The only thing that's different between Chrome and Firefox for the average user is that WebGL doesn't work (yet) in Firefox, which I know is technical, but it means some websites that need more graphics processing won't work in Firefox. Since WebGL is fairly new, I haven't run across it much, only once or twice.

If its at University a lot of online classwork requires Chrome, especially proctored test-taking. They might have installed Chrome for that and just kept using it to avoid any problems and having to switch back and forth between browsers.

Not being google's removed ?

I've used FF almost always. There was a hiatus, a long time ago, when i heard claims that chrome was faster, so i switched to chrome for a bit, but went back to FF very soon. I was very much a normie/tech illiterate person, but i just really liked firefox

I'm a normie who uses firefox because it's the default in my Fedora machine. On windows I just use edge. While on my Android phone, I use it because I like having extensions.