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Firefox has lost about 60 million users since Chrome announced Manifest v3: https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/

• kyleee 3y ago
  Extra credit: compare and contrast with the graph of Baker’s compensation as CEO
  • lamontcg 3y ago
    Term project: draw Sundar Pichai's total comp over the graph of Baker's comp without using a log scale.
    • ric2b 3y ago
      Google is much larger than Chrome, Mozilla isn't much larger than Firefox.
• bluish29 3y ago
  According to this blog announcement, [1] Manifest 3 was announced on Nov 9th 2020 which had ~223M Firefox users and the last avaiable data says that on Nov 5th there is a ~187M users. This about ~36M not 60M. [1] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/ https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/intro/
  • tapoxi 3y ago
    I'm going off of this story: https://9to5google.com/2019/01/22/google-chrome-break-ad-blockers/ https://9to5google.com/2019/01/22/google-chrome-break-ad-blo...
• dns_snek 3y ago
  That's alarming on its own, but I don't think the point of announcement of Mv3 is all that relevant, 99.9% of users aren't going to change their browser until they absolutely have to because they don't know what "Manifest v3" is, much less what it means for them.
• dabockster 3y ago
  Because the MPL/GPL is super restrictive if you’re trying to build any kind of sustainable business directly from Firefox code. Nothing big tech scale, but even just attempting to put food on the table with it risks lawsuits.
  • tomrod 3y ago
    Can you give some more details?
    • dabockster 3y ago
      You can't restrict what any for-profit entity does with your source code. You have to give it away for free to be in compliance with the license.