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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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[–] Firipu@startrek.website 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

The day Firefox gets native mouse gestures is the day I swap. Until then will continue to be a very happy Vivaldi user.

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[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago (24 children)

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

[–] drasticpotatoes@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 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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[–] elmicha@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago

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

[–] 01011@monero.town 1 points 10 months ago

Raises eyebrows at article viewed via Firefox

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