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The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance (www.zdnet.com)
submitted 10 months ago by ConstableJelly@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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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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[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 99 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Firefox is far from irrelevant. Pure stupid click bait. Market share of courses is a sad thing and may lead to irrelevance when most web sites stop supporting. In the late days of Netscape and the early days of Firefox that was the case... lack of website support. I am just starting to see that again.

[–] ahriboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Manifest V3 will force some people to go back to Firefox.

[–] DdCno1@beehaw.org 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wish so too, but I think you're overestimating people.

[–] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

Agree. I know so many folks that just deal with ads and think its just how the internet works

[–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

firefox will stay relevant, even if only because alphabet really really wants to avoid antitrust lawsuits.