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So annoying how they can be champions of being a non Chrome-based alternative but miss the mark so fucking hard. They will alienate their active users and fail at attracting new ones at the same time.
IIRC they had 2% of users, which makes it hard to go lower yet they achieve it.
https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
2.26% of users as of August, according to StatCounter. This is the lowest it's ever been, beating the previous low of 2.37% in June.
Meanwhile, Chrome hit 69.26%, the highest I think it's ever gotten.
Remember Internet Exploder?
All it takes is a better product.
Firefox is heading in the opposite direction of "better".
Is Chrome getting better? It disabled adblockers, added AI, tracks everything a user does... And keeps rising.
People needs to start realizing Firefox losing market is 90% Google and Apple maintaining a duopoly. They only allow others to avoid lawyer fees.
I've been a Firefox/FF derivative user for two decades. Literally everything Mozilla is doing really drives me away from Mozilla products. Switching a tab-strip and extension compatible mobile browser into a crud-tab management, no extension mobile browser made me stop using Firefox as a mobile browser half a decade ago. Implementing all of this AI nonsense while increasing the CEO salary is about to drive me away from Firefox (And LibreWolf, which insists on bundling all of this in their browser).
I just downloaded Ungoogled Chromium and will take it for a spin.
if you're going to use chromium, you should use vivaldi.
Does it still have ad blocking? I heard something about all chrome-based browsers losing the ability to block ads.
all chromium browsers use the chrome store for extensions, so the option is either ublock origin lite or nothing. fwiw, my old ublock origin isn't disabled yet in vivaldi though so you might be able to sideload if you can get the crx.
my default browser is firefox/librewolf though.
Rocking extensions in firefox for android for years. Don't know what you all talk about
Good for you, perhaps you've modified your Firefox through the debug menu and curate your own collection of extensions on AMO?
Since you speak from a position of superior expertise, surely this is something you know all about.
I think you might have missed it, but if an extension is marked as compatible (by the developer) you can install extensions nowadays, no need to curate your own extension list. Here is the listing.
Link me a Mozilla source that confirms the change and we'll be one step closer to "Too late for me, I stopped using Firefox years ago and I'm not going back to a company that's actively drives me away from their other products (Tested Thunderbird, uninstalled after donation ads. Currently migrating away from FF/LibreWolf). I have no trust in their ability to make reasonable products anymore."
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/new-extensions-youll-love-now-available-on-firefox-for-android/
"This milestone marks the launch of a new open extension ecosystem on mobile where developers are now free to create and publish extensions and users can easily access and install them on Firefox for Android."
This has apparently been the case since December 2023.
That's fair enough. Unfortunately this came too late for me, I stopped using Firefox years ago and I’m not going back to a company that’s actively drives me away from their other products (Tested Thunderbird, uninstalled after donation ads. Currently migrating away from FF/LibreWolf). I have no trust in their ability to make reasonable products anymore.