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by ameminator 1049 days ago
As a side note, as of today Firefox has something like 2.79% of the browser market, coming in fifth, behind Opera, Edge, Safari and (of course) Chrome. Firefox only comes slightly ahead of Samsung Internet which I have only just heard of today. It's really sad to see how far Firefox has fallen.

The stats: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
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toyg 1049 days ago
3 of those are preinstalled on devices by their corporate owners (Safari is literally imposed on all iOS users). Opera today is really a VPN/proxy/bandwidth optimiser for bandwidth-poor Asian markets, and iirc is government-mandated in some cases.

Firefox can do better for sure, but its competitors basically cheat.

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jgaa 1049 days ago
One reason may be that they alienate users by copying the look, bad habits and feel of Chrome. They also engage in dark pattern UI behavior that pisses me off each time I get it in my face.

Dear Firefox: If I wanted Chrome, I would use Chrome. Please be an alternative to Chrome.

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