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what was the driver of this growth?
by opendomain 4y ago
what was the driver of this growth?
- artificial 4y agocrosses fingers Hopefully people escaping Chrome monoculture and users fleeing the looming ad blocking nerfing. Mozilla seems to fit the user agent role better.
- virgildotcodes 4y agoManifest v3 is the only thing I can think of that spawned a lot of “I’m switching to Firefox” online conversations over the last year. But that’s in the nerdiest, most niche programming circles, so I can’t believe its impact is actually measurable.
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoand yet, Firefox is switching to Manifest v3, too, just on a more delayed timeline than Chrome.
- dblohm7 4y agoThey're not getting rid of the old blocking API, though.
- deafpolygon 4y agoYet. When Google makes it contingent on their annual "donation", they will.
- kaba0 4y agoThat donation may well be just as important for google than it is to mozilla. They are much better off without a huge lawsuit and paying out “pennies” each year.
- deafpolygon 4y agoYes, it's an important donation - for stifling competition. There is more than one way to monopolize the market.
- dblohm7 4y agoI worked there as an engineer for just under 9 years. Google does not give Mozilla engineering its marching orders.
- illiac786 4y agoI find ff "total cookie protection" amazing. First time I read about it I thought "how on earth has this not been the standard way to handle cookies since browsers were invented?"
- sciurus 4y agoTo clarify for the sibling comments - Firefox active users hasn't grown. https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity Revenue has grown, though. While I worked there, it fluctuated mostly based on how well Google was able to monetize ad clicks. Mozilla is selling more of their own ads since I left, and that seems to be paying off.