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> However, I don’t think Firefox is important anymore (I’m a loyal user). As I already wrote in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44659025 https://news.ycom
by aleph_minus_one 1y ago
> However, I don’t think Firefox is important anymore (I’m a loyal user).
As I already wrote in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44659025 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44659025 (and write often on Hacker News), Firefox is used very actively in Germany; among the desktop browsers it is the 2nd most used one (and German Firefox users are often very vocal about it and love to proselytise users who use Chrome.
Here the relevant statistics:
- USA: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/united-states-of-america https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/unit... (Firefox 4th place, 7.45 %)
- Germany: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/germany https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/germ... (Firefox 2nd place, 15.41 %)
- jmathai 1y agoThat doesn’t warrant the size of the organization and costs to run it in its current form. The trends are not in Firefox’s favor. I say this as someone who uses Firefox on both iPhone and OSX. I think a slimmer Firefox that’s just community supported would be fine. Forgo monetization and AI and enjoy the niche it can survive in. I’d go for that!