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It's not financially worth supporting, Firefox has 6.53% of desktop and 0.53% of mobile marketshare (Statcounter), with a switching cost of zero if users encoun
by tapoxi 2y ago
It's not financially worth supporting, Firefox has 6.53% of desktop and 0.53% of mobile marketshare (Statcounter), with a switching cost of zero if users encounter a breaking issue.
Not surprising it got to this point, Mozilla has been stagnant on features most users care about and catered exclusively to the privacy crowd for years - which isn't a large group and competes with Chromium offshoots (giving it a smaller niche, privacy but demanding an alternative rendering engine).
- andybak 2y agoIt's a non-zero switching cost for me. Every site that doesn't work in Firefox is a pain to use and I mostly don't bother.
- xvector 2y agoMost normal users will simply switch away from Firefox, often permanently, if things break in Firefox.
- loudmax 2y agoMost normal users aren't technology experts. This makes supporting the free web that much more important for those in a position to know better.
- tapoxi 2y agoSure, but the QA cost to support Firefox is significantly higher than the small fraction of people that will refuse to use a site that doesn't support it when they encounter an issue.
- jorvi 2y ago> catered exclusively to the privacy crowd for years Not even that. Firefox on iOS doesn’t have an integrated adblocker. It’s been requested for years at this point, and browsers like Brave do have one. Pure unwillingness. It’s why I got all my non-techie family and friends to switch to Brave.