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Safari's market share dwarfs that of Firefox, and has for a long time. If there is indeed such a "fig leaf", it's Apple, not Mozilla.

• chiefalchemist 3y ago
  Apple acquires Mozilla? Eventually?
  • Dah00n 3y ago
    That would mean the death of Firefox. Apple is the exact opposite of what Mozilla is or tries to be.
    • eastbound 3y ago
      Economically, Mozilla is a subsidiary of Google. Honestly, they keep arguing it is not the case, but they excellently serve as non-threatening competition.
  • hollander 3y ago
    Why would they?
    • chiefalchemist 3y ago
      Why not? Stranger things have happened.
• 5- 3y ago
  most of that market share will go away the moment google is allowed to push chrome on ios.
  • nfriedly 3y ago
    I don't know, defaults are pretty powerful. There's already a Chrome-branded Safari wrapper on iOS; but my guess is that the majority of iOS users use "regular" Safari and will continue to because it's the default.
    • bratwurst3000 3y ago
      I don’t think they will. Safari doesn’t have good plugins. That’s a big point. Using plugins.
      • nfriedly 3y ago
        I'm mostly a Firefox on Android user, does Chrome on Android have plugins now? I know it didn't for a while.
        • danarmak 3y ago
          I assume you mean extensions, not plugins. No, Chrome doesn't support extensions on android, but some Chromium reskins do. That said, the most important extension usecase is adblocking, and with Manifest v4 and FLoC/Topics and SafetyNet/remote attestation, well...
          • bad_user 3y ago
            Chrome's adblocking capabilities, introduced in Manifest v3, are (1) inspired by Safari and (2) more capable than what Safari provides. You can track this uBlock Origin Lite issue: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/52 https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/52
      • oktoberpaard 3y ago
        For as far as I know, Chrome on Android has no support for plugins at all, whereas Safari on iOS does support plugins, including adblockers. I don’t see why Chromium would support plugins on iOS, since they obviously benefit from the fact that you can’t block ads.
        • tortoise_in 3y ago
          You should try kiwi
      • Turing_Machine 3y ago
• cmcaleer 3y ago
  In terms of desktop market share it's about equal. https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#desktop-site-by-browser https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#desktop...
• Devasta 3y ago
  Does Safari work on Windows or Android? Safaris market share is because other browser engines are restricted. The second Chrome becomes available on iOS Google search, maps, YouTube, everything will have "Works best in Chrome" plastered everywhere.
  • pjmlp 3y ago
    Just as info for the young folks, Safari had a Windows version until 2012.