The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance

ConstableJelly@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org – 189 points – The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance
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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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I will be honest. I didn't read that article because it's too click-baity. Using https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/ I see that Firefox is about 3% of 5b users. Not insignificant.

That 3% is about 150mil users. IMO, less than it should be. Google has great security, but terrible privacy. I switched middle of last year, from brave to FF for reasons I won't get into here. Suffice it to say, they are numerous.

It truly is troubling that they don't have independent funding. I, for one would pay $10/y for this service. Maybe I could donate?

Anyway, it's a superior product in many ways.

I would say a good half of posts on Lemmy are too click-baity for me to actually look at. Every title clearly has picked a side and it's rare to see something even attempt to be impartial

I can't disagree with you. I feel like that's the way of the world anymore regardless of platform.

That's total browser market. On Desktop it's 7.61%, in Germany 17.93%, making it second place (though Edge isn't far behind). Europe is 10.56%, North America pretty much average, Asia and South America are dragging it down.

It truly is troubling that they don’t have independent funding. I, for one would pay $10/y for this service. Maybe I could donate?

Firefox is Mozilla's cash cow, it's how they're earning funds for their charitable work. And google btw isn't the only one paying them, which search engine is the default depends on where you are.

Firefox is Mozilla's cash cow, it's how they're earning funds for their charitable work. And google btw isn't the only one paying them, which search engine is the default depends on where you are.

Thank you that's wonderful news! I don't have the time to keep up on browser news like that so I truly appreciate the information.