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Firefox is losing users fast
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#22How do you come to this conclusion given that YOY data shows
July of last year: 197.8 million active users
July of this year: 196.2 million active users
Re: Firefox is losing users fast
#23Please try Firefox on mobile if you've been using Chrome on Android. The adblocker makes it faster than Chrome, as well as more pleasing to use. Google refuses to support extensions on Chrome, hence no adblock there - but various Chromium forks could also be alternatives.
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#24I stopped using Firefox because of the poor text rendering compared to Chrome. A lot of people here dismissed me, didn't believe me, or just said that I shouldn't care. I can't help but think that the Firefox "community" is just kinda like that. They don't really care about things that regular users are bothered by. Culture dictates priorities, right?
I think it's more likely that you can see something other people can't. I have this page open on macOS on identical monitors side by side, one in Chrome, and one in FF, and I legitimately can't tell a difference between the two in terms of text rendering. If I was in a discussion with you and you were going on about how poorly Firefox rendered text, I would be skeptical, because I don't see it.
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#25Is this data gathered from the "Firefox Data Collection and Use" section of the settings or another method?
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#26I'm an open source advocate. I used firefox for decades, even when it was being blown out of the water by Chrome performance wise. Recently I've switched to Brave due to many websites not rendering correctly or running slowly. Lots of government websites don't work with firefox for instance. You'll get decently far along in the form of a street parking permit, and then you can't submit it for some reason.
I wish Mozilla chose to pursue making the best browser engine possible. It's a winning strategy as we can see from the dominance of chromium based browsers. Instead they've tried adding features or products paired with the browser as their strategy. Some, such as containers, are great. Others, like pocket, are forgettable.
I'm also not a fan of how the CEO has been increasingly rewarded even though the market share has plummeted. At a certain point you need leadership to commit to improving market share and hold them to it. However, this has nothing to do with why I've switched browsers.
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#27So what is the alternative? Anything but chrome.
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#28Is there a general trend of losing web users to mobile? That might explain the slow decline.
I was using firefox for Android but they removed the support for extensions (actually there is a restricted subset of curated extensions that are allowed).
So I moved to a chromium based browser.
I was using firefox on my laptop because it was in synch with my phone, but bit by bit I started using it less and less.
At firefox they are not paying attention to users, so they are losing them slowly...
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#29I'm an open source advocate. I used firefox for decades, even when it was being blown out of the water by Chrome performance wise. Recently I've switched to Brave due to many websites not rendering correctly or running slowly. Lots of government websites don't work with firefox for instance. You'll get decently far along in the form of a street parking permit, and then you can't submit it for some reason. I wish Mozi…
If Google had spent millions of dollars trying to kill Firefox they would not have done as much damage as the MBAs that have taken over.
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#30I stopped using Firefox because of the poor text rendering compared to Chrome. A lot of people here dismissed me, didn't believe me, or just said that I shouldn't care. I can't help but think that the Firefox "community" is just kinda like that. They don't really care about things that regular users are bothered by. Culture dictates priorities, right?
Can someone who can see this issue with Firefox rendering poorly (or other browsers rendering poorly compared to Firefox) take some screenshots of both browsers side-by-side that captures this issue so the rest of us can see?