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The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance (www.zdnet.com)

submitted 10 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.

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[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

I've found the reason it's not great on mobile is because even if you tell your android phone to use Firefox as default it simply ignores it and uses chrome anyways

Edit: I was able to get it to work properly as my default browser but I had to disable chrome in the app settings. Now it's great

[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 9 points 10 months ago

Just fully remove chrome. I do not even have chrome on my phone. Firefox works fine on mobile. Have no idea why people think it does not.

[–] vvv@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago

You can disable chrome in it's app settings!

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Disable chrome. Problem solved.

[–] uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

What phone do you use that you experience this?

[–] ares35@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

be sure to actually launch firefox and don't use the google 'app' either.

[–] Jesus_666@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

Can't confirm. My default browser and web view are Firefox on both Sony and Samsung devices.