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[–] [email protected] 52 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Despite Firefox’s declining marketshare on desktop the browser is in use health. It’s fast and feature enough to hold its own against its rivals

Huh?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

No, they usually write this worse. If this is Mozilla's AI they're fucking up something fierce.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

And a bad one too. Modern LLMs can write flawless English at 7B.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that's badly written, but Firefox is actually gaining de desktop marketshare now!

(According to gs.statcounter.com)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The problem with stats like these are that Firefox users (and the browser's defaults) block a lot of the scripts and images used for tracking.

Cloudflare's stats show higher Firefox usage (4.737% for 2023 Q3), although that's still less than even Edge. My own logs show more still, although my visitors are more technical than usual.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah, its gaining marketshare, I'm glad we agree.

(I use StatCounter mostly for trends, not hard numbers, because of the exact thing you just said)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

"is in good health"? I was looking for autocorrect typos but can't figure out anything likely, unless they're not using querty.