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Really surprised that FF is only 4% market share now: what did I miss? Never followed the browser wars, just used what I liked then (chrome -> opera -> FF for the past year or so..). Turns out I'm on the sinking ship...



> Really surprised that FF is only 4% market share now: what did I miss?

The explosion of mobile.


> what did I miss?

You missed the pre-installed browser and applications bundled with your computer becoming good enough that ~nobody is going to www.firefox.com to download a browser on a fresh install. This isn't 2004, you no longer need to spend three hours downloading software to make a fresh install of Windows usable.

That, and a weak mobile app.


> what did I miss

Mobile is eating the web. Mobile (Android - it's all Safari on iOs) Firefox is a bad experience.


>Mobile is eating the web. Mobile (Android - it's all Safari on iOs) Firefox is a bad experience.

Allow me to second this!I have a not-so-small bookrmark collection (~600). When I discovered FF tags, I was ecstatic: assigning multiple tags to a single bookmark makes navigating the pile really good.

But, as soon as I discovered that neither iOS nor Android version of Firefox supports tags, I felt betrayed. Add to it the inability to export full FF profile (such peculiarities as about:config overrides, extension lists etc) and you end up with a very disgruntled user. So I ended up with trusting desktop Safari. Turns out it has _similar_ feature called bookmark description.

I still resent Chromium-based products, because UX is wrong to me. But FF is certainly mismanaged if not sabotaged and the upper level management will bury it. Or the time will make FF almost irrelevant.


Mobile Firefox is awesome to me. I use it everyday.


There are advantages on Android to using a Chromium-based browser unfortunately, cf. https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.ht...




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