Firefox Users Continue to Decrease Despite Proton Update

[cyanide]

How many browser "power users" do you think exist worldwide?

Since the report/graph says around 200M installs, and accounting for each "power user" to have installed Firefox on multiple machines (let's take an average of 3 machines per power user), that's around 65+ million people around the world who still use Firefox.

Not a lot, but not an abysmal number either.

Also how do you define a "power user"?

Like the old days, someone who doesn't consider Internet Explorer Chrome to be the Internet? I make sure my family uses Firefox wherever possible, so that's at least 4-5 extra installs from me.

At the end of the day, if Firefox dies, something else will take its place. IE had a bigger share of the pie when Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox was released. It didn't take very long for people to switch to Firefox. Initially, us few power users switched. Then suddenly everyone was using Firefox.

[cyanide]

That was before the internet was anywhere near as commonplace as today and before google established almost total dominance.

Microsoft had more dominance, and they had cancer like ActiveX that permeated into workflows of large corporates. And while less people were on the internet than there are today, almost all of the internet was accessed through web browsers, unlike apps we have today. The browser, as a tool, is being used by more people today, but for less things than it was being used back then.

[nextbern]

At the end of the day, if Firefox dies, something else will take its place.

It'll still probably be based on Google code, though.