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The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance (www.zdnet.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Article seems pretty flawed. Relevance is a vague metric, and the author relies pretty heavily on data related to government site visitation, which seems subject to bias toward certain types of users.

Market share is likely still incredibly low, but Firefox's relevance should be spiking right now due to Google's shenanigans with Chromium. The fact that like 90% of revenue for its for-profit wing is from Google is still troubling.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (24 children)

I only use FF in Linux, I tried on Android but it's somewhat bad 😔

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

I've found the reason it's not great on mobile is because even if you tell your android phone to use Firefox as default it simply ignores it and uses chrome anyways

Edit: I was able to get it to work properly as my default browser but I had to disable chrome in the app settings. Now it's great

[–] vvv 6 points 1 year ago

You can disable chrome in it's app settings!

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