Comment by vaylian
5 days ago
TIL that Firefox has less than 5% market share. When and why did people stop using Firefox?
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Submitted from Firefox
5 days ago
TIL that Firefox has less than 5% market share. When and why did people stop using Firefox?
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Submitted from Firefox
The use started to decline when Google started the extreme marketing campaign of Chrome around 2010 or so. All Google services had huge banners and included all sorts of dark patterns to get people to install it.
TBF, Chrome probably also had some better features and performance over FF, but I don't think most people think much about their browser quality.
> When and why did people stop using Firefox?
Approximately at the time when majority of the Mozilla resources started going into non-browser projects. And pretty much for the same reason.
So when would that be exactly? Firefox was first released in 2004 and Mozilla Corporation was founded in 2005.
According to https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#yearly-2014-... the high point for adoption was 2010 and it has been falling since then. (However, they only have data from 2010 onwards, so the high point could have been even earlier.) This coincidentally [sic] aligns to the launch of Chrome with a massive marketing push in 2008, promising speed, ease of use and security.
I find it hard to believe that there are enough people who closely follow the drama around the internal financial management and politics of Mozilla Corporation that they can be measured in the tens of percentage points of total internet market share.