Declining popularity on desktop as people moved to moblie. FireFox has taken a "strong stance" on security at the expense of usability. I'm sure you could trac

Declining popularity on desktop as people moved to moblie. FireFox has taken a "strong stance" on security at the expense of usability. I'm sure you could track the number of sites they refuse to support agiant its decline and find corrolation. Not letting you bypass ssl on localhost or the lan or read from CDs or the local file system or low security legacy systems on the lan make it far less useful as a generic gui than it should be. I use it and keep chromium handy for when it fails me. I dont blame people for switching permanently when it fails them and something else "just works". Plus of course Apple forbid a browser choice and Goolge push their spyware hard on Android. Mozilla of late assume the only use of a browser is browsing the Internet. They are very wrong. Dev tools used to be great on ff so many sites worked better on ff than other browsers. They shot themselves in the foot when they messed up firebug and split the community. That was the point I noticed devs stop using it as a first choice. Then they broke all existing plugins with no replacement when they moved off xul. That cant have helped. If you check bug reports youll find a lot of "wont fix" indicative of the overall change to not supporting users needs. Its open source in name only. even chrome has far more forks. Trying to do anything with firefox code other than firefox on the internet is a non-starter. Dont get me started on use of their js engine vs v8