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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.

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[–] markkdark@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Before the new year, I donated 25€ for Firefox, my long-time companion to #degoogle Grapheneos and Linux. Although Google is introducing DRM, I don't think anything is so important in this life that I have to use Chrome or IE, I will adapt to the situation and instead of worrying about DRM (of course, for the public Internet, this seems like a total violation of users' rights, for safety 🤣🤣🤣, really?) I will try to be more social, but not in the sense of social networks, but hanging out with friends or listening to music or running or a good book... I definitely don't want this big corporation near me, which we are more and more they control... (google,ms,apple,amazon...) Firefox probably missed by not insisting on FirefoxOS (phones), but it has a great agenda - privacy and simplicity. I look forward to many years of using FF!!

[–] Zworf@beehaw.org 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The problem is, you can't donate to firefox. Only to the mozilla foundation which spends it on other stuff.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

theres a difference between the mozilla foundation - the non profit - and the mozilla corporation - the for profit.

[–] Zworf@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yes exactly, that's what I mean. Firefox is from the for-profit and you can't donate to that. I think they did that because of the google deal but it also means they locked themselves out of a sustainable donation model.

The non-profit is just running some BS side-projects now.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

firefox foundation is literally what you donate to when you donate to firefox.

[–] Zworf@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

No, it's the Mozilla foundation: https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/ . Not the firefox foundation.

They do a lot of stuff but Firefox is not part of that, that's under the corporation: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/what-we-do/

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[–] markkdark@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Yes, to mozzila foundation. Thanx

[–] rab@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

Is this copy pasta