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?
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.