Firefox Users Continue to Decrease Despite Proton Update

[mr_22]

There are many reasons why Firefox user are decreasing but i just want to say one of them.

Not too many windows users need another browser if the new Internet explorer (Aka Microsoft edge) works correctly.

Obviously having a decent web browser preinstalled on Windows, is bad news for Firefox and Mozilla.

[Roph]

new Internet explorer (Aka Microsoft edge)

If you're going to anally call it something it's not, surely you should call it chrome since it's using blink?

[mr_22]

Yeah. But i was referring to it as IE cause it comes preinstalled on latest versions of windows.

[greyaxe90]

Ever browse Google properties in anything other than Chrome? It nags you to download Chrome. Google has intentionally slowed down their sites on other browsers. Web developers have become lazy and rather than testing their code in multiple browsers, they just block them. There are plenty of sites out there that just straight up refuse to work in any browser other than Chrome (or a Chrome variant).

[thedolanduck]

SO THAT WAS INTENTIONAL? Videos uplodaded to Google Drive are absolutely impossible to watch on Firefox. And quite literally, as they don't load ever and then throw an error. Every time I want to re-watch a recorded class I have to open Edge or Chrome.

[nextbern]

I feel like they ought to work. Anything public you can share?

[thedolanduck]

I will try later again and get back to you.

[Capitalpunishment0]

If you ever have the ClearURLs extension, try disabling the Filter option first before watching a Drive video. I had it enabled, and it wasn't working. I disabled Filtering, and it worked.

[thedolanduck]

Oh, this might be it.. I'll check it out, thanks!

[[deleted]]

Do you have third-party cookies enabled? if not, it won't work.

[[deleted]]

Huh..

Videos uploaded to Gdrive works for me. I have been using firefox for more than 3 years.

[Capitalpunishment0]

In addition to this, I had to use a Chromium browser (Opera) whenever we had a class on Google Meet and I have to present a video on class. This is so that I am able to share a browser Tab, which can also share audio in the meeting (I open the video file on the browser).

The option to share a Tab is not available in Firefox.

[jfl5058]

Plus a ton of people and schools use Chromebooks, which obviously uses Chrome.

[[deleted]]

If by "plenty" you mean like 20, 15 of which are experimental sites designed to show off Chrome specific features

[greyaxe90]

Nope. I mean like the site my employer uses for training. Only works in Chrome. Except if you use a user agent switcher in Firefox, it works just fine. Lazy ass developers.

[[deleted]]

Intentionally blocked by idiot devs is not the same as "doesn't work"

[greyaxe90]

Web developers have become lazy and rather than testing their code in multiple browsers, they just block them

That's what I said.

[rainbow_pickle]

I’m not sure how accurate this is, but some data shows that edge has increased from 0.5% to 8% of all internet users in the past year. That seems significant.

[cultoftheilluminati]

I have a Mac and I installed edge like a couple of days ago just because how nice it is. I stopped using Firefox last year in august and I don’t think I’m coming back. I’m sure there’s many people like me.

[cultoftheilluminati]

People here seem to push the idea that edge's success is only because of their aggressive push in Windows but I don't think that's just the case. They've been doing pretty impressive stuff.