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Yeah, that will totally solve Mozilla's now so slow fading into irrelevance. VideoLAN.org website stats tell me that Firefox hits percentage dropped from 26.3%

by thresh 10y ago

Yeah, that will totally solve Mozilla's now so slow fading into irrelevance. VideoLAN.org website stats tell me that Firefox hits percentage dropped from 26.3% through Jan 2016 to 21.2% through Jan 2017. Of course this is not a 100% reliable measure, but stats usually don't lie about that.

matt4077 10y ago
It's the result of Google throwing their full weight behind Chrome. It's insane not to expect the #1 cash-generating business to take a large bite out of Firefox when they set their mind on creating a browser that ticks all the marks of Mozilla's goals as well: standards-compliant (or setting), fast, secure, open, extensible etc. And Chrome is now at the absolute core of Google's strategy: they need to make the open web as competitive a platform as possible to stop Facebook's walled garden, or Apple's native platform the future of the web. Because google has no place in those two ecosystems. Thus: Android and Chrome. Trash-talking Mozilla is only going to make their funding dry up and/or demotivate their employees. But it's in everyone's interest to make sure they thrive. It's only a coincidence that Google and the public's interest are currently aligned. There will come a time in the future where we'll desperately need the competitor that is Firefox. Let's not forget that they were ones lighting a fire under IE from around 2005-2012. Who knows where we'd be without them – .docx instead of .html?
reitanqild 10y ago
> Yeah, that will totally solve Mozilla's now so slow fading into irrelevance. Neither will constant picking on anything they do or don't do. > VideoLAN.org website stats tell me that Firefox hits percentage dropped from 26.3% through Jan 2016 to 21.2% through Jan 2017. I guess the reason might just be that the market is moving towards a new equilibrium. Unless we start making websites and web apps that only work in other browsers then the web is big enough for both Firefox and other inferior browsers ;-)
- thresh 10y ago
  I'm not picking, I'm just looking at the stats I have. I've actually have it graphed on http://thre.sh/stuff/browsers-stats-videolan.org.png http://thre.sh/stuff/browsers-stats-videolan.org.png now.
  - reitanqild 10y ago
    > I'm not picking, I'm just looking at the stats English isn't my mother tongue so I might have misread. What would you call this, in a toplevel comment about what seems to me to be a well received rebranding: >> Yeah, that will totally solve Mozilla's now so slow fading into irrelevance.

by thresh 10y ago

matt4077 10y ago

It's the result of Google throwing their full weight behind Chrome. It's insane not to expect the #1 cash-generating business to take a large bite out of Firefox when they set their mind on creating a browser that ticks all the marks of Mozilla's goals as well: standards-compliant (or setting), fast, secure, open, extensible etc. And Chrome is now at the absolute core of Google's strategy: they need to make the open web as competitive a platform as possible to stop Facebook's walled garden, or Apple's native platform the future of the web. Because google has no place in those two ecosystems. Thus: Android and Chrome. Trash-talking Mozilla is only going to make their funding dry up and/or demotivate their employees. But it's in everyone's interest to make sure they thrive. It's only a coincidence that Google and the public's interest are currently aligned. There will come a time in the future where we'll desperately need the competitor that is Firefox. Let's not forget that they were ones lighting a fire under IE from around 2005-2012. Who knows where we'd be without them – .docx instead of .html?

reitanqild 10y ago

> Yeah, that will totally solve Mozilla's now so slow fading into irrelevance. Neither will constant picking on anything they do or don't do. > VideoLAN.org website stats tell me that Firefox hits percentage dropped from 26.3% through Jan 2016 to 21.2% through Jan 2017. I guess the reason might just be that the market is moving towards a new equilibrium. Unless we start making websites and web apps that only work in other browsers then the web is big enough for both Firefox and other inferior browsers ;-)

thresh 10y ago
I'm not picking, I'm just looking at the stats I have. I've actually have it graphed on http://thre.sh/stuff/browsers-stats-videolan.org.png http://thre.sh/stuff/browsers-stats-videolan.org.png now.
- reitanqild 10y ago
  > I'm not picking, I'm just looking at the stats English isn't my mother tongue so I might have misread. What would you call this, in a toplevel comment about what seems to me to be a well received rebranding: >> Yeah, that will totally solve Mozilla's now so slow fading into irrelevance.