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Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Been really enjoying Firefox, especially after Quantum. More devs should support and use it, lest we be beholden to Chrome for the rest of time.

I donated to the Mozilla Foundation today when I heard about this trend coupled with the rumor of Edge's sunsetting.

Even if the money is simply spent on marketing, I think that could be a good thing.

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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post #95
post #9

Been really enjoying Firefox, especially after Quantum. More devs should support and use it, lest we be beholden to Chrome for the rest of time.

DevTools are lacking and they broke a ton of add ons with the API update (with no simple way to side load.) I can't use it. I tried again about five months ago and, one two machines, pages would stutter as I scrolled. Not worth my time to mess around with.

Would love to know your favorite add-ons that are broken and not available in AMO for FF57+ some of the contributors during their free time working on to bring extensions. can you share link or about the addon ( https://github.com/firefox-addons/ideas )

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

#264
I use Firefox as my desktop browser and love it, but I generally use Chrome in Android for mobile browsing; seeing this stat was discouraging, so I just now switched to Firefox for Android.

The [-] collapse buttons for these threads are weirdly a lot more difficult to click (specifically, register a press with your finger) than in Chrome... Anyway, I think committing to FireFox is more important so I can deal with it.

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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post #257

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> they're even mimicking Firefox's scrollable tab-bar since it's such an obvious win over a million super-narrow tabs that you can't possibly identify. The non-scrollable tabs are what I miss most about Chrome. I know I'm not in a majority there, but I wouldn't call it an obvious win.

about:config has `browser.tabs.tabMinWidth` :) just set it to 0. Though I firmly believe that about:config is in no way a user-viable option (as useful as it can be, for dev purposes), so I don't intend to imply that means "firefox has that too". It doesn't, it just has a workaround.

Thanks, but I know about the about:config string. Especially with very low values, it had some weird behavior last time I tried it.

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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post #257

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about:config has `browser.tabs.tabMinWidth` :) just set it to 0. Though I firmly believe that about:config is in no way a user-viable option (as useful as it can be, for dev purposes), so I don't intend to imply that means "firefox has that too". It doesn't, it just has a workaround.

Thanks, but I know about the about:config string. Especially with very low values, it had some weird behavior last time I tried it.

yea, doesn't really surprise me. most about:config is pretty hit or miss. out of curiosity tho: was that before the UI overhaul (i.e. have you done it since it became HTML+CSS instead of XUL)?

personally I'm loving Tree Style Tab, so I don't really pay attention to the tabbar any more.

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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post #59
post #17

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Are there specific WebExtension APIs you care about that Chrome supports and Firefox doesn't?

There are a few niche plugins I use for specific sites to enhance usability that I definitely don't expect to be ported to Firefox, but even the ones that are take an understandable backseat in terms of developer priority. For example, for more than 10 years I've been using Chrome extensions that allow you to hover over image links to view them without clicking. There are dozens of these extensions in almost any brow…

You can use most WebExtensions from Chrome with Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-store-...

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

#269

Sure but 9% is still a lot of people and the browser is now on the rebound after a few missteps by Chrome. https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/15/17239548/firefox-chrome-s...

Not sure where the rebound is, the trending numbers show a strong decline even since the article. It’s even more bleak when you factor in mobile.

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

#270
post #9

Been really enjoying Firefox, especially after Quantum. More devs should support and use it, lest we be beholden to Chrome for the rest of time.

I use Firefox for development, but I use safari (privately) and edge (professionally) for browsing, and see no real advantages to using either Firefox or Chrome for that.

I think modern Firefox is a much better browser than Chrome though, but Mozilla certainly lost the PR war and to no fault but their own, because Firefox sure sucked for a long while.

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