46 million people have left Firefox since 2018

[CyberTech]

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https://www.techspot.com/news/90692-firefox-loses-46-million-users-three-years.html

In brief: Firefox has long been considered one of the better alternatives to the world’s most popular browser, Chrome, particularly among Linux fans. So it’s a bit surprising to learn that Mozilla’s product has been losing quite a few users over the last three years—46 million, to be precise.

That figure comes from Firefox’s own Public Data Report and is highlighted in a Reddit thread by u/nixcraft (via itsfoss). It reveals that the browser had 244 million active monthly users at the end of 2018, but by the second quarter of 2021, user numbers had fallen to 198 million.

According to Statcounter, Firefox currently has a 3.45% share of the desktop, mobile, and tablet browser market, sitting behind second-place Safari (18.65%) and the long-time number one, Chrome (65.18%). It’s only just above Edge, which has a 3.41% share.

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46 million people have left Firefox since 2018

That figure comes from Firefox's own Public Data Report and is highlighted in a Reddit thread by u/nixcraft (via itsfoss). It reveals that the browser had 244...

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[The_King]

Every week/month, different stats with regard to browsers come out, I think FF lost 3rd place to Edge over several times like some sort of Groundhog Day / Edge of tomorrow time loop. But apparently now it's still ahead of Edge.

 

[gonzalo]

I never really liked FF. Always felt slow and not as responsive as Chrome

 

[blackice]

I've just gone back to FF as my main browser. So...maybe things will change as 90+ improvements are rolled out.

 

[oldschool]

I've just gone back to FF as my main browser. So...maybe things will change as 90+ improvements are rolled out.

FF is definitely better (unless you're a die-hard old school FF user ) but @gonzalo has a point. There's still something a bit clunky with its page loading/navigation.

 

[rain2reign]

I have used FireFox most of my life, still using it now. But it does get harder to justify using Firefox, on Windows OS, over Edge. They are getting sloppy in almost every corner of the "browser-world". I really like it and would love to keep supporting it, but... since almost everyone is switching to chromium standards as opposed to web-standards. It's only a matter of time, before there will be no other web browser engines left other than chromium.

They really should stop f- around in management and start innovating once more. Lots of these "new" features had been on the table for years, only now they suddenly became more relevant with competition breathing down their necks.

 

[Game Of Thrones]

firefox is dead for me i can argue about why it should be dead to you too. i compared browsers on my own(speed, scrolling performance, battery life, native dark mode, ad blocking capability). and i have just one advice use native browser on each platform. on ios and mac safary on windows edge and on Android Samsung internet or kiwi. i compared on each platform and believe me native ones are miles ahead from others.

 

[misterman2100]

I have used FireFox most of my life, still using it now. But it does get harder to justify using Firefox, on Windows OS, over Edge. They are getting sloppy in almost every corner of the "browser-world". I really like it and would love to keep supporting it, but... since almost everyone is switching to chromium standards as opposed to web-standards. It's only a matter of time, before there will be no other web browser engines left other than chromium.

They really should stop f- around in management and start innovating once more. Lots of these "new" features had been on the table for years, only now they suddenly became more relevant with competition breathing down their necks.

Necessity is the mother of invention (or lighting a fire under your ass to do something). I have been a Firefox user my entire life, and I cannot justify jumping into the chromium camp. Hell, I even use Firefox as my primary phone browser.

 

[Freud2004]

I return to Firefox, it gives me a capacity of personalization that other browsers can't give.

 

[CyberTech]

Necessity is the mother of invention (or lighting a fire under your ass to do something). I have been a Firefox user my entire life, and I cannot justify jumping into the chromium camp. Hell, I even use Firefox as my primary phone browser.

Same here except the phone

 

[Nightwalker]

I've just gone back to FF as my main browser. So...maybe things will change as 90+ improvements are rolled out.

I am back to Firefox too; more powerful extensions (Manifest v3 is a joke), modules rewritten in Rust, as well as the Total Cookie Protection module, there's a lot to love about this Fox in 2021.

 

[oldschool]

I am back to Firefox too; more powerful extensions (Manifest v3 is a joke), modules rewritten in Rust, as well as the Total Cookie Protection module, there's a lot to love about this Fox in 2021.

I agree, these are definite upsides.

 

[Chuck57]

I use Firefox and have google chrome. I use firefox mostly because google blocks some political pages I want to see. They're accessible with Firefox.

 

[Nightwalker]

I use Firefox and have google chrome. I use firefox mostly because google blocks some political pages I want to see. They're accessible with Firefox.

Probably because DNS over HTTPS is enabled on your Firefox browser, you can do the same with Chrome or even better you can use something like YogaDNS to have a better, safer and privacy oriented system wide DNS.

YogaDNS - The Most Advanced DNS Client for Windows

yogadns.com

 

[brambedkar59]

I've just gone back to FF as my main browser. So...maybe things will change as 90+ improvements are rolled out.

They keep making changes under the hood.

Performance in progress – Mozilla Performance

In the last six months the Firefox performance team has implemented changes to improve startup, responsiveness, security (Fission), and web standards. Startup and perceived startup Doug Thayer and Emma Malysz ...

blog.mozilla.org

 

[show-Zi]

I think that what general users want is to use it casually. I think that is a little different from the direction that ff is aiming for. It does not mean that the market share has decreased because it is inferior to others in performance.

However, I think that the change in the handling of add-ons has had an impact on users.

 

[qua3k]

Manifest v3 is a joke

Manifest v3 is an important step in improving the security of extensions. For example, the declarativeNetRequest API allows content filtering without the extension being able to see or modify requests itself similar to Safari’s content blockers. Firefox supports Manifest v3 but they have stated they will not be dropping the older webRequest API.

 

[Viking]

I have been a Firefox user since v3, and i'll stick with it till the end.

 

[Nightwater]

It's been said for a long time about it, Mozila is dead, but there's a lot of stubborn people who insisted on saying the opposite, the numbers don't lie, every day there's less user, it's falling behind everyone with Chrome engines, they paid the price of continue with a super slow engine when opening pages, the internet today is fast, everyone wants to "fly", apparently they didn't understand this, privacy is good, but nobody wants to know, most users just look for speed.

 

[Nightwalker]

Manifest v3 is an important step in improving the security of extensions. For example, the declarativeNetRequest API allows content filtering without the extension being able to see or modify requests itself similar to Safari’s content blockers. Firefox supports Manifest v3 but they have stated they will not be dropping the older webRequest API.

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