There’s a mention of Safari’s popularity thanks to the iPhone but otherwise the article seem to miss that most of the smartphone and tablet boom happened during

There’s a mention of Safari’s popularity thanks to the iPhone but otherwise the article seem to miss that most of the smartphone and tablet boom happened during the period since. I think that’s a major point to Firefox’s demise, making the 2% of the whole market possibly represent quite a bit more of the desktop market. It also mentions the revenue to point out how dependent the foundation is on Google, but fails to mention that the market share of 34% in 2010 generated $123M and the market share of 2.2% in 2022 generated $593M. None of this will prevent an eventual demise of Mozilla and Firefox/Gecko (one possible future is what happened to Opera and Firefox adopting either Blink or WebKit – I’d personally consider that completing the slide into irrelevance), but I don’t think Firefox is as close to its last gasp as the article suggests.