Article seems pretty flawed. Relevance is a vague metric, and the author relies pretty heavily on data related to government site visitation, which seems subject to bias toward certain types of users.
Market share is likely still incredibly low, but Firefox’s relevance should be spiking right now due to Google’s shenanigans with Chromium. The fact that like 90% of revenue for its for-profit wing is from Google is still troubling.
Any alternative views out there?
What’s bad about it? It’s the only way to use an ad blocker on mobile
I’ve also had problems with Firefox on mobile. For some reason it’s just very heavy on my phone, slower than chromium and has frozen android twice. I go back to it every now and then to see if it’s changed but until then there are many browsers that support ad blockers. Kiwi works great for me
Yes, but it’s buggy, it often freezes, it also consumes ~5% battery per hour, even if I kill FF before going to bed, the next morning it took like 40% of the battery in 8h night.
The url bar is in the bottom of the screen in stead of in the top.
You can move it to the top in the settings though…? They moved it to the bottom by default because most people have their thumbs close to the bottom of the screen, so they don’t need to reach all the way to the top to get to the URL bar or change tabs.
I just checked in my own, you can change the toolbar to the top of the screen in the “Customize” page of the settings.
Yeah i know. That’s just the worst thing I could think of.
That drove me nuts… You can fix it through, I did it immediately when they made the change
vivaldi also has an adblocker on android
Wrong. Vivaldi and Brave have adblockers, without even taking into account AdGuard, Blockade and the likes.
I use Firefox on mobile, but Brave does the same things better and faster. Chrome is also faster despite loading megabytes of ads and other nonsense.
The benchmarks online may say I’m wrong, but in practice I see more loading bars and grey loading screens in Firefox. Running those benchmarks on my phone also places Firefox hilariously far behind Chrome, so I think their performance stats only apply to Firefox on Windows.
There are also some really stupid bugs in Firefox. If I’m developing something and I want to paste a URL containing an IPv6 address (i.e. my dev machine, a dev container somewhere) I have to use Chrome because Firefox on Android doesn’t recognise IPv6 addresses as URLs and starts googling http://[fe80::abcde]:8080/ instead. Sometimes the tabs themselves seem to get disconnected from the browser, making them unusable. Firefox also encounters white flashes and other incomplete page loading renders more often than Chrome, but I’m not sure if that’s because Firefox just starts rendering early or if Chrome adds a wait timer to hide its loading progress.
Same here … there is more than enough content on the internet as a whole … if I run into a site that gives me a hard time to see or read any of their content, I just turn it off, close the tab and restart my search or go somewhere else. I’m not wasting my time to accommodate a dumb website that doesn’t want to easily show me something I can see elsewhere … and if I can’t see it elsewhere, then more than likely, it wasn’t worth seeing anyway.