Sad to see such article written as if it was all firefox's fault, instead of google and apple's anticompetitive (and probably illegal) strategies playing a great role.
this post was submitted on 05 Jan 2024
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Edit; I'm happy with Firefox, and have been using it exclusively for about 6 years now.
Fuck Google. Do no harm, unless it generates profit.
Right? I've been on Firefox since forever because it's a "no bullshit" browser that just does what I need. It's not running like a thousand instances of itself in the background even after I close it the way Chrome does.
bit of a hit piece, citing lots of old data. my n=1 study indicates a 100% satisfaction rate with firefox and I have personally turned on at least 30 former chrome users to Firefox within the last 2 months. so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is just zdnet being zdnet Firefox remains the best browser for me and many others. The percentage of users in highly educated groups is much higher and there is a reason for this.
Well that was a well paid hit piece. For the record, I am happy with Firefox and its functions, I've been using it since the start.
I am rather worried about Mozilla's new laser focus on AI and the Corp CEO compensation bonuses are just bullshit.
I'm hoping we won't be forced into a completely Google dominated web because I thinking at that point it's time to abandon it and burn everything to the ground
Firefox lovers will never admit it. I just use it because it's the only real, opensource alternative, but I sure am not happy with it nor Mozilla.
Yeah, totally the same. I'm only using it because that's the only option, I'll never use a chromium based browser, because that engine directly contradicts my my values. But the CEOs pay very much bothers me too, she does not deserve it at all, that money should be spent on useful work on the browser.
I have been thinking it for long that it's not a good browser, but the one that is the minimally bad. Of course I don't tell this to people when I try to get them to switch, because for them it does not send the message I actually wanted.
I've been trying not to go to Chromium, but honestly, Mozilla is giving me less and less reason to. The only thing holding me back is Chromium's terrible customisability. They don't have containers and their sidebar is really new, so TreeStyleTabs won't work yet. Also it doesn't have last recently used tab switching and it's not possible to remove the horizontal tab bar to only have a sidebar with TreeStyleTabs 😑
Oh, there's more than that. A lot more. Just one example: ublock and such firewalls weren't effective for long, because on browser startup it does not hold back network requests while the filter lists of addons haven't loaded yet. But as you probably know, in recent years google has been working hard to reduce filtering capabilities of addons to the ground.
To me there's still a lot of reasons to keep Firefox, but actually instead these are just reasons to never install chrome, and never support it for friends (because it can't be supported, because it does not even try to serve the user's interest, because it is not a useragent, as it is technically called, but a corporate agent)
I have been using Firefox for over a decade and am still more than happy with it.
The statistic of low Firefox use is based on accessing US government websites. Could it be that there is significantly LESS government site access by the population of users that prefer Firefox? As a corollary I recently read that game companies observed significantly HIGHER bug reporting from Linux users on Steam, not because there were more Linux-related bugs, but simply because that set of users were more likely to initiate bug reports. Of course Firefox is not Linux and Steam is not the world, but a statistic from a relatively narrow segment of the internet should not be assumed representative of the whole.
Garbage article from a garbage outlet. Firefox is doing just fine for anyone who is using it. It’s not going anywhere anytime soon and these articles are written just to get a rise out of people.
Mozilla isn’t perfect, and has loads of room for improvement, but at least they’re trying to provide alternatives to the nonsense of MS and Google. I’d love a new browser that disrupts the stagnation we have these days, but if they’re only going to be built on top of existing things like Chromium, with its bullshit Manifest v3, then no thanks, I’ll stick with Firefox.
I remember ditching Google Chrome in favor of Firefox.