Firefox lost 50M users since 2019
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Firefox lost 50M users since 2019
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Re: Firefox lost 50M users since 2019
#2Firefox no longer has XP support. There are a lot of XP users with older Firefoxes that cannot upgrade. Plus Microsoft Edge isn't as bad as Internet Explorer was.
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#3Firefox no longer has XP support. There are a lot of XP users with older Firefoxes that cannot upgrade. Plus Microsoft Edge isn't as bad as Internet Explorer was.
According to Microsoft there's about 1.5 billion Windows users, about half a percent are still on XP. So that'd be about 7-8 million XP users. Say a third are potential Firefox users, that'd be a drop in the bucket in this statistic. And for the sake of the market share on other platforms it's probably a good idea that they're not investing resources in XP.
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#5I may be the odd one but I dropped FF after the drama over brendin eich and his support of prop 8. I just did not feel the same after seeing how he was attacked for his personal contributions.
There was just some hateful stuff that came from both sides that really uncovered some toxic personalities in the FF legion.
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#7Former Firefix advocate, after the plugins breakage and senseless ui changes I had to check out.
Kiwi on mobile from an HN recommendation
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#8I would imagine it's partially because of increased adoption of Brave and Safari.
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#9personally, i knew things were headed in the wrong direction when they added that big orange button in the top left corner. i guess that was version 4. i felt like it was the beginning of the end.
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#10I still use Firefox on my iPhone and computer. It generally works great.