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Strange, from my perspective Firefox is very widely used. And for me Chrome/Chromium has just to many usability bugs, to be used productive. E.g. Tabbar doesn'
by chme 10y ago
Strange, from my perspective Firefox is very widely used.
And for me Chrome/Chromium has just to many usability bugs, to be used productive. E.g. Tabbar doesn't scroll, not very good extensions available (e.g. regex search) and its more difficult to select head of tail of the url (in firefox just click in middle and drag down/up wards)
- bobajeff 10y agoIn terms of marketshare Firefox is in the single digits now. Regardless of what is the better browser Firefox is, relative to Chrome and IE, not that widely used.
- chme 10y agoHmm... The thing is, it doesn't matter that much how widely a piece of software is used, but by whom.
- bobajeff 10y agoIt matters to the search engines that pay Mozilla for that default search setting plus royalties for referrals. Which in turn funds all of their projects including Firefox.
- wpietri 10y agoIt also matters to developers. Who even tests on Opera, which is ~1% of market share? Once people stop caring about whether your browser works, you lose all ability to lead how browsers work.
- chme 10y agoMarket share is nice, but when many developers use Firefox, guess what gets developed even if they don't get money for it?
- angry-hacker 10y agoExcept most of the devs use chrome / safari and if it works there, it's done. No one cares about ie / edge anymore either.
- cpeterso 10y agowebcompat.com is a Mozilla initiative for users to report bugs for websites that don't work cross-browser. Mozilla staff and volunteers then reach out to the website's developers. It's disheartening that many web developers can't be bothered to test Firefox or Edge. https://webcompat.com/about https://webcompat.com/about