Will Firefox go extinct like Netscape did?
Firefox was born from the ashes of Netscape. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla#History
Firefox lost 50M users since 2019
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Re: Firefox lost 50M users since 2019
#32It's honestly a pity. Firefox is it perfect but the Internet is becoming worse because of chrome. Google is able to fast track any non standard Web tech and the hordes follow. Soon after, that become the standard. I don't want to cheer for a broken browser, but only Safari is able to stop this madness now. Also, Firefox on the Desktop is really good and still let's you do so much more than chrome clones. But it suffe…
>only Safari is able to stop this madness now
Safari is usable on less than 20% of machines, it absolutely will not be stopping anything. It's also the bane of my existence as a web developer.
Re: Firefox lost 50M users since 2019
#33In other news: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat... https://www.ghacks.net/2021/03/14/mozilla-plans-to-remove-th... https://www.ghacks.net/2020/04/08/how-to-restore-the-old-fir...
These right there, and all the other issues in the same vein are the probably the reason.
Sure, make a simplified browser interface by default. But don't forget to give power users an escape hatch to get more control over the browser, and make it do what they want. They are the ones that recommend the browser to other users.
Re: Firefox lost 50M users since 2019
#34I try to use it as my daily driver, but it really sucks. Audio issues, logged out of everything issues, auto fill issues, it just doesn’t work in Firefox issues. Containers made me want to like it, but cmon.
If you want to help, report the sites you have issues with here: https://webcompat.com/
Re: Firefox lost 50M users since 2019
#35I still use Firefox on my iPhone and computer. It generally works great.
I would use it if they implemented the content blocking API on iOS. I can use Firefox Focus as ad blocker with Safari, but not with Firefox!
I adblock with this in combination with iOS Firefox:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/weblock-adblock-proxy/id558818...
Re: Firefox lost 50M users since 2019
#36Each to their own. I'm a happy Firefox user and will continue to be on all my devices (including my phone which I'm writing this now with)
Me too. Firefox on both my Windows and GNU/Linux laptops. Firefox Focus in my phone - I use a phone browser only for reading and Focus works perfectly for that use case.
Re: Firefox lost 50M users since 2019
#37Hmm, conversely, I switched to Firefox (from Chrome) as my main web browser this year!
Yeah, me two (coming from Edge).
I would argue that Chrome is better in some aspects, but using Firefox is the least thing one can do to stop Googles dominance.
I also quite like the UI changes and would say that Firefox now has the best looking chrome after Safari (highly subjective).
Re: Firefox lost 50M users since 2019
#38had no idea people have that much trouble with the new UI. Looks quite alright to me, although I did lose compatibility for 2 plugins so that was a pain in the butt.
Re: Firefox lost 50M users since 2019
#39It's honestly a pity. Firefox is it perfect but the Internet is becoming worse because of chrome. Google is able to fast track any non standard Web tech and the hordes follow. Soon after, that become the standard. I don't want to cheer for a broken browser, but only Safari is able to stop this madness now. Also, Firefox on the Desktop is really good and still let's you do so much more than chrome clones. But it suffe…
> only Safari is able to stop this madness now
Safari is a hard sell when one can't install an ad-blocker on it (work on the street is you can but not easily)
Re: Firefox lost 50M users since 2019
#40The recent changes to the address bar and the terrible new "Photon" UI are really annoying. Don't annoy your loyal users.
Its funny that you mention the not really annoying shit and forget about the push for pocket, the constant push for some of their free services like firefox sync, send, vpn, etc that, the reappearing ebay bookmark i deleted like 12 times by now, the removal of live bookmarks, etc... and those are just the things they can control.