but when you tell the moz fanboys why moz sucks you'll find yourself in a meta/maga like echochamber. again and again moz made absolute shit decisions, the managing board is eating money like mad and google is STILL your default search engine. pathetic.
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What I don't get is why hasn't there been a split yet. Not like Seamonkey, but from major developers of FF.
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My government sites don't work with Firefox (no add-ons), have to use chrome, they recommend and only support chrome.
May I ask which country you're from? That sounds dystopian.
Few years ago(maybe 10) it was still recommended or even necessary to use IE for a lot of goverment Internet Services here in Germany. The online Zoll handling for example. I think a lot of goverments are not really into accesibility optimization.
I don't think the zdnet article adds much but it does link to https://news.itsfoss.com/firefox-continuous-decline/ which gets it about right. If anything has changed since it was written, evidence of it has not yet reached me.
“You’re just a tiny minority, most people like the change”
They did the same shit with their redesign with their idiotic floating tabs. They look ugly and they even take up way more space, while displaying less information, for literally no reason. They argued the need this change for future FF features, which yet, several years later, have yet to appear. Here's a quote from "Paul", one of their moderators - almost 3 years ago:
Hi,
We bring a modernized and differentiated look to tabs since Firefox 89 in order to create a signature Firefox look and experience. This major redesign will help us enable more use cases and features in the future.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1338169
I love Firefox and will continue to use it, but its decline is a mixture of Google's aggressive embrace, extend, and extinguish approach and straight up continued mismanagement of the Mozilla Corporation.
Boy that paints a grim picture.
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I guess Firefox market share will be closely related to Linux desktop market share
Firefox has been irrelevant for about a decade now. Most webdevs don't even test for firefox anymore. Major websides actively ignore it and most users evidently either don't know and/or use it.
Yes, firefox is relevant as an alternative to Chromium-based browsers, but that's about it. Mozilla has done a stellar job at keeping it irrelevant to keep bagging that sweet google money.
Honestly, I hope firefox and mozilla die, to be reborn again by another entity, but Mitchell Baker probably will do their best to keep getting that sweet, sweet, Google money.
Only thing I miss in Firefox is PWA, but I still mainly use it.
There's an extension which allows PWAs.
What a ridiculous title, article and post.
The day Firefox gets native mouse gestures is the day I swap. Until then will continue to be a very happy Vivaldi user.
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I only use FF in Linux, I tried on Android but it's somewhat bad 😔
Working just fine for me...
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
You can disable chrome in it's app settings!
Disable chrome. Problem solved.
What phone do you use that you experience this?
be sure to actually launch firefox and don't use the google 'app' either.
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