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The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance (www.zdnet.com)
submitted 8 months ago by ConstableJelly@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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Article seems pretty flawed. Relevance is a vague metric, and the author relies pretty heavily on data related to government site visitation, which seems subject to bias toward certain types of users.

Market share is likely still incredibly low, but Firefox's relevance should be spiking right now due to Google's shenanigans with Chromium. The fact that like 90% of revenue for its for-profit wing is from Google is still troubling.

Any alternative views out there?

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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I use Edge for corporate intranet, Safari for anything with real-life connected personal accounts, and Firefox for everything else. Have done so for over a decade (with Edge previously being Chrome and before that IE).

This means government sites would mostly see me as a Safari user, with the occasional Edge visit, unless I was just looking something up, in which case it’d be Firefox.

According to YouTube, I’d be 99% a Firefox user.

[–] ConstableJelly@beehaw.org 7 points 8 months ago

This is a very good example of the skewing I imagined. If you're unable or prohibited from using Firefox on work devices (as many environments restrict), all that workday traffic will be coming from "approved" browsers.