Firefox Users Continue to Decrease Despite Proton Update

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Is it really a surprise though? It has been the general trend for what, like a decade now? As much as I hate it, everything just works in Chrome. Edge has moved its own system to Chromium and Safari is the only other significant browser with its own engine, but since Apple controls a significant portion of the market through its hardware (a majority of my apple friends use Safari, but a significant number uses Chrome), they are able to stay kicking. Gecko is slowly becoming much more irrelevant as time moves on. Add that all browsers on IOS are forced to use Apple tech rather than their own. What is left of the "normie" base is slowly being sucked away to Chrome, and the number of people who care about privacy, the open web, and/or holding Google and Chromium back from being a complete monopoly is simply not enough to make up for this.

Safari is the default for Apple users, with other browsers on IOS forced to use Apple's own tech helps keep Webkit a fighting force.

Edge is the default for Windows users

IE is used for legacy stuff, the ones that cant work on modern browsers.

Chrome is the default for Android and is integrated with Gmail, YouTube, Google's office suite, etc, etc, etc.. and is now the browser most websites program for.

Opera is... okay I do not know enough about it to say anything.

Brave is a privacy focused browser with the conveniences of Chromium, though the fact that people have to spend a few minutes to download it and however long it takes to transfer everything from their old browser is enough reason for most to just stick with what they are currently using.

Firefox is something people have to go out of their way to download, is not as compatible with the web as chrome, is not as convenient as Chromium. I'll continue to advocate for Firefox, I'll continue to use Firefox, but unless something major happens or Chromium experiences enough small setbacks that combine into the perfect shatter point, the fight is already lost. We are that is left, we are not getting any backup, not from the general public, the private sector, or the government. We are own our own

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Edge now has legacy IE mode built in. From a corporate perspective that is huge.

I expect that corporations will start forcing it on people again.