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Firefox has an ambitious new roadmap, the browser is also losing millions of users a month
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Dont believe the article at all. Everyone I talk to is switching back to Firefox. I never left.
Mozilla's own numbers tells the same story. https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
Didn't know they have those data. Some c/dataisbeautiful material here!
Some things are really interesting. I'd expect more people with extensions, but the majority don't use. I'd also expect more linux users, but it seems the popularity among linux users is about same level as the general users. It's also interesting to see a reasonable amount of 32 bit systems
I'd say it's not clear if those numbers include FF forks that still use Firefox auth and sync or not.
By default it does as they send baseline telemetry to Mozilla servers, unless fork or individual user disables it. That said, many privacy oriented forks do disable it by default so they wouldn't be counted.
Those look like the numbers of the telemetry endpoints, and that's the first thing most forks remove.
Both are true, I'm not sure I'd call it "millions per month" though...
Usage has been slowly dropping year on year since 2022 but also this year usage is up
Looks basically the same to me in absolute numbers (although good luck getting a clear picture here), lower percentage of relative users.
In the same 12 months, Brave reported a 33% increase in monthly active users.
screenshots
(That small rise in the previous screenshot is 2.33%)
Brave
88100000 to 117600000
I was with Netscape 1.0. Never left.
Mosaic.
Never left.
(btw)
I never finished downloading Netscape from the university gopher because my roommate took the phone cable. And they only had 24 connections available to the while place.
Same, and I personally know two people who I would describe as college educated white-collar folks, but definitely not into "tech", who recently told me they switched to Firefox.