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The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance (www.zdnet.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Article seems pretty flawed. Relevance is a vague metric, and the author relies pretty heavily on data related to government site visitation, which seems subject to bias toward certain types of users.

Market share is likely still incredibly low, but Firefox's relevance should be spiking right now due to Google's shenanigans with Chromium. The fact that like 90% of revenue for its for-profit wing is from Google is still troubling.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if Firefox users are more likely to spoof their user agent setting? Probably not.

I'll still use it. Compared to every other browser, it is the least disastrous regarding privacy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I always spoof the ua. Not for privacy (though it helps), but because some sites artificially break for certain browsers or OSs and work perfectly fine when they think you're on a different browser. The artificial restriction should be illegal, but it isn't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Keep it default until you encounter a website that doesn't work. Then swap it temporarily either manually or with an extension. And then swap back immediately. Then send the webmaster a complaint.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I do that at home (not the webmaster bit), but at work I'm usually in a hurry and switching between different admin panels, so it's constantly set to something that will work with ABM, intune, and MS admin (there are more admin panels, but those the ones always giving me the "your browser is not supported" bs). Not chrome, though.