I was at my parents house last week because i had to help them with their laptop. I told my mom about firefox and she was very confused because she doesn't seem to understand that google chrome is a browser and that every browser can access google search or their banking site.

It took a bit of effort to explain that firefox works the exact same but is safer and faster.

She is now using firefox on her phone because i showed her ublock origin works with it to block ads.

A lot of people don't seem to understand that google chrome isn't the internet and what exactly a browser is.

Might have to do with the fact that Firefox was the dominant browser for quite awhile until Chrome arrived on the scene.

I remember a point around 2015ish where a lot of web apps went from recommending Firefox and Chrome for the best experience to just Chrome. Now I often see "don't use Firefox" as a support tactic.

This is also why there's such a a prevalence of flashing warning banners, fake pseudobluescreens, and other scary shit disguised in chrome notifications.

The notifications in chrome are as close to on by default as you can get and with the right code snippets you can make it look like the FBI locked down your workstation and you need to call them.

Firefox should start hardening against this behavior now because popularity gets targeted even more specifically.

Make it an end user safety feature.

Force every notification to have

"This is a notification from a website that you elected to receive by allowing notifications. You can disable these notifications here"

with a link to the setting on the frame of of every one, no fullscreen allowed, no flashing, double-check and prohibit the words FBI, CIA, NSA, TSA, IRS, Social Security, Microsoft, etc.

I guess average user cares mostly about how fast and smooth the browsing is. Chrome definitely has the edge on that over firefox.

Yeah I've been using it for at least a decade now. It's great.