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I have no idea how someone can get so stuck up their assumptions as to say something like that. I have been using Firefox since circa 2010, and can count on my

I have no idea how someone can get so stuck up their assumptions as to say something like that. I have been using Firefox since circa 2010, and can count on my fingers how many websites do not work properly in it. Most of the time it's just some CYA "I am a lazy/underpaid-subcontractor dev and didn't bother opening my website on a non-majority browser to check if it is broken" banner asking me to switch (which nowadays I mostly don't see thanks to uBlock's Annoyances list); the website was an actual tech demo of something that only Chrome had at the time; or it was an incredibly convoluted government website best browsed with Mosaic or some shit like that.

rvz 5y ago
> I have no idea how someone can get so stuck up their assumptions as to say something like that. The entire comments section of this post painfully admits the decline of Firefox as it has been quickly replaced by Chrome and the users do not care about Firefox's features or even its privacy features. Perhaps the 'assumptions' are backed by the market share and global usage mentioned in the article's website and the original source [0] assuming you have read both. On top of that which wasn't mentioned is that Firefox cannot possibly counter Chrome's dominance since its creator Mozilla is still being kept on financial life support by Google themselves. Even with Mozilla receiving millions from Google, they are still failing behind. To reuse this quote from the article: 'Soon Google are going to be in complete control of web standards, unless something drastically changes.' Well if Firefox is the so-called 'alternative' to the Chrome hegemony, then they are doing a very poor job at convincing the end users to switch back to Firefox and stop Chrome's dominance given the global browser usage and market share. [0] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

rvz 5y ago

> I have no idea how someone can get so stuck up their assumptions as to say something like that. The entire comments section of this post painfully admits the decline of Firefox as it has been quickly replaced by Chrome and the users do not care about Firefox's features or even its privacy features. Perhaps the 'assumptions' are backed by the market share and global usage mentioned in the article's website and the original source [0] assuming you have read both. On top of that which wasn't mentioned is that Firefox cannot possibly counter Chrome's dominance since its creator Mozilla is still being kept on financial life support by Google themselves. Even with Mozilla receiving millions from Google, they are still failing behind. To reuse this quote from the article: 'Soon Google are going to be in complete control of web standards, unless something drastically changes.' Well if Firefox is the so-called 'alternative' to the Chrome hegemony, then they are doing a very poor job at convincing the end users to switch back to Firefox and stop Chrome's dominance given the global browser usage and market share. [0] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share