Mozilla Shrinks to Survive Amid Declining Firefox Usage

ITProToday ^ | 18 August 2020 | Christine Hall

[mo]

they could’ve had a fast, light-weight, super-secure browser with built in PGP encryption....but “leadership” decided to monetize it and most of our browsing habits and thoughts-like all the other tech “giants

[9422WMR]

I just loaded Firefox on my iPhone because Safari would not keep me logged in on FreeRepublic. It works flawlessly. I also run it on my office pc.

[mo]

Firefox Focus is the best iphone browser out there IMHO

[beef]

“All downhill since Mozilla forced Brendan Eich out. I droped FireFox about then and now use Brendon’s “Brave” browser.”

I am right there with you. Mozilla claims to be committed to privacy, but IMHO that is an out and out lie. After Brendan was kicked out, they started the Pocket thing, and they want you to turn that on and set up an account with them. If they really cared about privacy, such a thing would not even cross their minds. All Mozilla is good for these days is to produce source code that others (like Tor) can vet and modify for privacy. They should just shut up and fix their buggy sh!t so that trustworthy people can take it over and make something useful of it.

BTW, Brave is great, highly recommended. I just wish Jim Robinson would set up his account and collect the BAT I have been trying to send him.

[Rockingham]

Mozilla and Firefox lost me when they ditched their well-regarded CEO because he donated to the anti-gay marriage campaign in California. In spite of some advantages, but I do not want to be irritated every time I use Mozilla or Firefox.

[beef]

“So sad. Penalize free speech of a company executive and then people walk away.”

Get woke. Go broke.

[beef]

“CCleaner has it’s own browser. No Ads. I’m using it more and more.”

Hasn’t CCleaner been outed as spyware?

[backwoods-engineer]

Get woke, go broke. They shouldn’t have fired Brandon Eich.

[FLT-bird]

I’ve been using Firefox for a decade. I’ll give Brave a try. I’m a bit concerned about the PITA of setting up all my bookmarks and settings on a new browser though.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I know a lot of Conservatives dumped it after they fired their CEO for contributing to an anti-Gay Marriage amendment drive in California.

Personally I got sick of the constant alerts over problems and incompatibilities with plug-ins.

[bitt]

p

[Pollard]

https://www.claws-mail.org/features.php

[freedom1st]

Thanks

[dayglored]

Mozilla in trouble ... PING!

You can find all the Windows Ping list threads with FR search: just search on keyword "windowspinglist".

Thanks to ShadowAce for the ping!

[Poser]

You were using private mode in Safari

[dayglored]

I used Netscape for both browser and email in the mid-90's, so I naturally transitioned to Firefox and Thunderbird when they came out, and have continued ever since.

I also use Chrome and Brave and Safari and Edge for various things where they work better than Firefox, but FF is my default.

I hope Mozilla manages to keep rolling -- moving off Firefox and Thunderbird as my defaults would be really annoying.

[CedarDave]

I’ve been a Firefox user for years and fought to change it back to my liking after almost every update changed the way in looked or operated. I hated the way they eliminated tabs on bottom for putting tabs on top and eliminated “legacy” apps when they changed platform formats a couple of years ago. I stayed with the old format and didn’t upgrade security holes until my company forced us to upgrade to Windows 10.

I searched the net and found scripts that helped me put tabs on bottom where they belong then made the jump and found new apps to replace the legacy ones. Now I like the way it works and looks but shudder with every new update that they may crash my tweaks.

Chrome is a Google spy machine and has no way (AFAIK) to make tabs on bottom so I’ll stick with Firefox. Edge is Microsoft’s browser and I can use it if necessary but don’t think there is a way to customize like Firefox.

[Captainpaintball]

I bet i can trace the decline of firefox to the exact day...

[Pollard]

Same here. Been using ff forever. I run two versions at the same time pretty much all the time because I’m a tab freak. Usually have 30-50 tabs open in each version LOL. I run regular ff and ff developer version. I like being able to scroll through the tabs instead of them shrinking down to where I can’t tell what’s what like Brave does. FF dev version screwed me on a recent update. I guess it was a major one or they just messed up. Lost everything. Tabs, history, bookmarks etc. I copied my regular FF profile over to it. Gave me back everything but my open tabs.

Falkon is a new one I kind of like but I haven’t used it a whole lot yet, https://www.falkon.org/

Very fast and has a slew of settings. It’s multiplatform.

I run linux which means I can use Chromium which is Chrome before googly gets their hands on it. I just don’t like Chromium/Chrome.

I use “open in new tab” a lot and with ff, it’s one swift motion to right click, move pointer over “open in new tab” and release right button. In all the rest, you have to right click, release right click, move pointer over Open in New Tab and left click. pita

There’s also a lot of addons for FF that have no equivalent in chrome/chromium based browsers.

[no-s]

All downhill since Mozilla forced Brendan Eich out.

So true. I'm still upset about that. I'm strongly tempted to Bravely go tilting at windmills but mostly I just stick with Safari and bite my tongue. I've given up on Mozilla and won't use Chrome directly.