Because it’s fast and works well enough to keep the fame acquired over the last 10 years.
Slower than Firefox
I’m a Firefox user on desktop and mobile, and I definitely feel like Chrome is faster on both platforms when I (have to) use it. But I prefer Firefox for the ideology and dev tools (on desktop), since I’m a web developer by trade, so the dev tools make a big difference for me.
I use both for my job and my subjective feeling is that chrome is faster. Js benchmarks seems to confirm it. Privately I use Firefox 95% of the time but I understand people who stay on chrome just out of inertia.
There was a short period a few years ago after the Quantum update that I would have partially agreed, because Firefox’s renderer was much smoother. But Chrome seems to have caught up, because it’s been much faster every time I test something in it in the yesrs since.
At the cost of zero privacy, data being stolen and other fundamental issues and morals that Google lacks.
Which is invisible to users, meaning they can ignore it or handwave it with “I haven’t got anything to hide”.
Or worse, “They already know everything about me, so why bother?”. One of my relatives says this. Kill me now.
