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by washadjeffmad 2016 days ago
It's being outpaced by other browsers in a rapidly expanding field, not falling in usage.

Safari and Edge are defaults on iOS, MacOS, and Windows, and Chrome is the default on Android. I imagine we're primarily seeing the effects platform capture everywhere else.
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apozem 2016 days ago
Defaults are so powerful. There's a damn good reason Google pays Apple $8-12 billion every year to be the default search engine on iOS.

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-apple-search-deal-doj...

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rgbrenner 2015 days ago
Firefox says they have 200m monthly active users. In 2018, techcrunch wrote about that same report and said "this data shows a downward trend for monthly active Firefox users, which now measure about 250 million, down from well over 300 million last April."

So I would be concerned.. they're actively bleeding users... not just being outpaced in a growing market.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/28/mozilla-publishes-its-fire...

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity

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