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Re: Firefox is losing users fast

#4
"Generally, MAU [monthly active users] fluctuates over the course of a year, dropping in the summer months and during holidays"

That seems to fit what's happening here. Longer term, firefox seems to have lost 15-20% of users in the past 3 years, which is substantial but not catastrophic. On the other hand, that probably means a much steeper decline in market share.

Re: Firefox is losing users fast

#5
I 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?

Re: Firefox is losing users fast

#10
If they focused more on the browser and spent less time and effort on these weird side projects they'd probably be in a better spot.

Some data points if anyone from FF sees this: I try and proselyte users to Firefox as often as I can. The biggest selling point I've had success with so far is the containers feature.

The big place I see people going is Brave under the idea it is more private or secure.

I'd also love to donate money to help the FF browser development but I have no guarantee that money will actually go to FF instead of some other crazy thing I don't really care for/about.

Please FF is the only place still not under the Chromium dictates, please save Firefox Mozilla.

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