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Hmm... The thing is, it doesn't matter that much how widely a piece of software is used, but by whom.

• bobajeff 10y ago
  It 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 ago
    It 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 ago
      Market 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 ago
        Except 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 ago
          webcompat.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