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Its a bit late for this .... not sure if it will make any difference... the people still using firefox are using addons to do that... but sure its a step in the

by OrgNet 8y ago

Its a bit late for this .... not sure if it will make any difference... the people still using firefox are using addons to do that... but sure its a step in the right direction

cgb223 8y ago
Is it? Chrome is moving more and more towards controling their browser experience, and monetizing their existing web properties (example, there are now ads in the Gmail iOS App) Apple is focusing more and more on privacy, especially for Safari.This is the best way that can fight back against Google's market share. They've definitely done their market research, so Firefox doing the same is probably in step with market needs. I think longer term this is going to pay off big for Firefox
RussianCow 8y ago
We need to eradicate this myth that only power users use Firefox anymore. There are plenty of laypeople still using it that never switched to Chrome, or recently switched to Firefox for privacy or other reasons, and those people generally don't use many addons (if any at all) or change the settings from the defaults. I don't know what the actual percentage is, but I'm sure Mozilla knows the answer, and I'd be willing to bet that it's much more than half.
- burtonator 8y ago
  So far I'm seeing very few people using my app in Firefox... they're mostly chrome. By about 80%... and a ton are from Hacker News... Makes it hard to justify coding for Firefox but I'm trying.
  - pacifika 8y ago
    RIP IE6
- geofft 8y ago
  The nice thing is that Mozilla makes this data easily available. You can see from the "Latest Version" graph on https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity that a) about 75% of Firefox users are getting updates to the latest version and b) that number did not appear to change with the release of Firefox 57. So there are approximately zero users staying on pre-Quantum versions of Firefox. (Perhaps there are users of Pale Moon or other pre-Quantum forks?)

by OrgNet 8y ago

Its a bit late for this .... not sure if it will make any difference... the people still using firefox are using addons to do that... but sure its a step in the right direction

cgb223 8y ago

Is it? Chrome is moving more and more towards controling their browser experience, and monetizing their existing web properties (example, there are now ads in the Gmail iOS App) Apple is focusing more and more on privacy, especially for Safari.This is the best way that can fight back against Google's market share. They've definitely done their market research, so Firefox doing the same is probably in step with market needs. I think longer term this is going to pay off big for Firefox

RussianCow 8y ago

We need to eradicate this myth that only power users use Firefox anymore. There are plenty of laypeople still using it that never switched to Chrome, or recently switched to Firefox for privacy or other reasons, and those people generally don't use many addons (if any at all) or change the settings from the defaults. I don't know what the actual percentage is, but I'm sure Mozilla knows the answer, and I'd be willing to bet that it's much more than half.

burtonator 8y ago
So far I'm seeing very few people using my app in Firefox... they're mostly chrome. By about 80%... and a ton are from Hacker News... Makes it hard to justify coding for Firefox but I'm trying.
- pacifika 8y ago
  RIP IE6
geofft 8y ago
The nice thing is that Mozilla makes this data easily available. You can see from the "Latest Version" graph on https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity that a) about 75% of Firefox users are getting updates to the latest version and b) that number did not appear to change with the release of Firefox 57. So there are approximately zero users staying on pre-Quantum versions of Firefox. (Perhaps there are users of Pale Moon or other pre-Quantum forks?)