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

submitted 11 months 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.

Any alternative views out there?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (18 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

be sure to actually launch firefox and don't use the google 'app' either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Can't confirm. My default browser and web view are Firefox on both Sony and Samsung devices.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Also bad on iOS. I use FF on my Linux laptop, but I use Safari on my phone because FF doesn’t have many features. I understand this is the fault of the iOS ecosystem, not FF, I am merely presenting the reality of the situation because this further skews data.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I use Firefox on Linux, Windows (at work), and Android, and I like it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I made an effort to only use Firefox because browser diversity is important for the web. It can be rough sometimes when things like.chromecast only work.via unstable extensions but I persist even on mobile.

I suspect the Mozilla corporate structure and leadership needs to be reviewed. They don't seem to know where they are going and get sidetracked.

Things like lack of good cross platform support for passkeys (fido2/ctap stuff) is going to hurt them even more as people won't be able to use Firefox to login to many sites on Linux where there is currently no blessed platform libraries for this. Unfortunately stuff like that is going to drag me back to Chrome for some stuff which handles this fine on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Was ZDNet once a good source for news?

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