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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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Post by pvinis »

Honestly, I haven't cared about the speed of Firefox for a long time now. I use it everyday, and I want to keep using it in the future, not because of it's speed, but because of the features and options.

For example: there is a way to completely hide the 'X' from the tabs. I love that. It's weird for some people but I like it that way. Chrome cannot do that. There is a feature request, but it was marked as won't fix for a long time now. Who decided that, I don't know and I don't care.

I want my options like that and many others that Firefox has and Chrome hasn't. And with the danger of being misunderstood here, I would consider switching, if Chrome had a few features/options I want. But the fact that Mozilla people care and spent 10 min to add the option for me or an add-on, makes them stand much higher in my mind.

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by SmellyGeekBoy »

11235813213455 wrote: post #292
eksemplar wrote: post #270

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

What I like in chrome is search shortcuts, example I start typing "thes" then press TAB, then I'm brought directly to https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/hello (possibly with little configuration). I don't think Firefox has similar things, last time I checked we have to use bookmarks or something

As someone who switched from Chrome to Firefox not that long ago this is the only feature I miss. Searching e.g. YouTube involves typing the query and then using the mouse to click the YouTube icon in the address bar dropdown. It's not nearly as effortless.

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by V-2 »

I switched away from Firefox years ago, because it felt very bloated, plus they'd break backwards compatibility pretty often, and every other update meant one or more extensions would stop working. Over time I grew tired of the "eeny, meeny, which one this time" routine.

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by devxpy »

bad_user wrote: post #480
kansi wrote: post #452

Reading this breaks my heart. I have been a Firefox user for almost a decade now and I have good and bad memories with it. Since Quantum release my experience with FF has been nothing but exceptional. On a general day I have around ~15 pinned tabs and more than 50 other tabs open and FF handles it like a breeze. The memory usage is good given the fact that my workload is heavy. On a dual-core machine, I am able to re…

> “ I am tired of listening to people screaming their lungs out about privacy when their actions don't reflect their opinions. ” Those screaming for privacy, like myself, are in fact a small minority. Also regardless of the topic, double standards are rampant in this community. You’ll often see people screaming against Google but still using @gmail.com because paying for a domain and the price of one coffee per month…

> paying for a domain and the price of one coffee per month

That's some expensive coffee.

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by [deleted] »

bhauer wrote: post #147
atombender wrote: post #35

I'd like to use Firefox. I've tried it out several times the last year. It's okay. Unfortunately, I always end up going back to Safari. Despite the performance improvements, Safari still feels like a faster, smoother browser. Firefox is still pretty ugly, too. On macOS, it feels chunkier and less natively integrated. Safari's "omnibar" is superior to Firefox's. Safari actually suggests web sites, which I use all the…

> Safari's "omnibar" is superior to Firefox's. Safari actually suggests web sites, which I use all the time. Wikipedia is a major one. Start typing "Richard Fey", for example, and the first hit will be the Wikipedia page for Richard Feynman, complete with a short summary and photo. Firefox forces me through a Google search. I don't use a Mac, so I am not sure if there are other features of the Safari omnibar which ar…

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Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by cf498 »

feanaro wrote: post #467
Silhouette wrote: post #406

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This gets said often, but I've been using Firefox continually since 2003 and I've never noticed it sucking. To this day, my browsing experience is still worse with Firefox than it was before 57, because so many useful little add-ons have never been replaced or have been replaced only with inferior versions. In some of those cases, that useful functionality can't be provided in the new environment, because the APIs to…

This I can relate with, but I would like to note that Firefox seems to be continually expanding its APIs and regaining functionality that was lost. In particular, [Tridactyl]( https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl ) (which tries to reimplement Pentadactyl, a kitchen-sink extension API consumer) works rather well. There are still some pain points, like the keyboard shortcut API which still hasn't been merged, but I a…

They rushed it and I find it hard to not see it as a giant "screw you".

They didnt release the specifications early enough for people to rewrite their addons and at the end of ESR52 there where still multiple bugs open which prevented people from porting their addons. We didnt even get a normal 1 year ESR support frame for gods sake. All that ignoring the fact that there was no warning for the end users that all their security addons were disabled after the automatic update.

I am still furious about the absolute arrogance and carelessness Mozilla showed here.

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by w3news »

This isnt good for the users, because Firefox respects the user. Firefox is build for the users, and all features are made with the idea that the user has control. Many privacy features are started at Firefox. Chrome isnt a bad browser, but isnt made for the user, it is made for commercial websites/webapps.

An example is that Firefox has a good tracking protection system.

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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Post by moccachino »

bad_user wrote: post #480
kansi wrote: post #452

Reading this breaks my heart. I have been a Firefox user for almost a decade now and I have good and bad memories with it. Since Quantum release my experience with FF has been nothing but exceptional. On a general day I have around ~15 pinned tabs and more than 50 other tabs open and FF handles it like a breeze. The memory usage is good given the fact that my workload is heavy. On a dual-core machine, I am able to re…

> “ I am tired of listening to people screaming their lungs out about privacy when their actions don't reflect their opinions. ” Those screaming for privacy, like myself, are in fact a small minority. Also regardless of the topic, double standards are rampant in this community. You’ll often see people screaming against Google but still using @gmail.com because paying for a domain and the price of one coffee per month…

To be fair it does take much more than $20 worth of effort to migrate all your stuff from gmail. How much more I don't know since I've yet to do it, even though I've been paying for another email service for more than a year.

Re: Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

#490

Post by perfunctory »

bhauer wrote: post #147
atombender wrote: post #35

I'd like to use Firefox. I've tried it out several times the last year. It's okay. Unfortunately, I always end up going back to Safari. Despite the performance improvements, Safari still feels like a faster, smoother browser. Firefox is still pretty ugly, too. On macOS, it feels chunkier and less natively integrated. Safari's "omnibar" is superior to Firefox's. Safari actually suggests web sites, which I use all the…

> Safari's "omnibar" is superior to Firefox's. Safari actually suggests web sites, which I use all the time. Wikipedia is a major one. Start typing "Richard Fey", for example, and the first hit will be the Wikipedia page for Richard Feynman, complete with a short summary and photo. Firefox forces me through a Google search. I don't use a Mac, so I am not sure if there are other features of the Safari omnibar which ar…

I am using duckduckgo extension and I am typing "!w Richard Feynman", or "Richard Feynman !w"
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