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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 tun@lemm.ee to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

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Firefox market share 2.2%
Firefox users not happy with current state
510 out of 593 mil revenue is from Google
CEO pay increased though market share declining

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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Firefox lovers will never admit it. I just use it because it's the only real, opensource alternative, but I sure am not happy with it nor Mozilla.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, totally the same. I'm only using it because that's the only option, I'll never use a chromium based browser, because that engine directly contradicts my my values. But the CEOs pay very much bothers me too, she does not deserve it at all, that money should be spent on useful work on the browser.
I have been thinking it for long that it's not a good browser, but the one that is the minimally bad. Of course I don't tell this to people when I try to get them to switch, because for them it does not send the message I actually wanted.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've been trying not to go to Chromium, but honestly, Mozilla is giving me less and less reason to. The only thing holding me back is Chromium's terrible customisability. They don't have containers and their sidebar is really new, so TreeStyleTabs won't work yet. Also it doesn't have last recently used tab switching and it's not possible to remove the horizontal tab bar to only have a sidebar with TreeStyleTabs 😑

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months ago

Oh, there's more than that. A lot more. Just one example: ublock and such firewalls weren't effective for long, because on browser startup it does not hold back network requests while the filter lists of addons haven't loaded yet. But as you probably know, in recent years google has been working hard to reduce filtering capabilities of addons to the ground.

To me there's still a lot of reasons to keep Firefox, but actually instead these are just reasons to never install chrome, and never support it for friends (because it can't be supported, because it does not even try to serve the user's interest, because it is not a useragent, as it is technically called, but a corporate agent)