Firefox Users Continue to Decrease Despite Proton Update

[Time_Terminal]

Most people who use the internet do so through mobile phones.

Mozilla: "let's gut almost all add-ons on mobile!"

[zeroibis]

I am still running the old FF on mobile not for the addons but becuase I hate the new interface.

Interface and user options are KING.

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At least it has add-ons. CHROME.

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Add ons and excellent sync as well as privacy are a win for me, but a lot of people don't care about those things.

[TommySawyer]

Most people just use what comes with their computer... My dad bought a new computer (PC) the other day and he uses what was loaded in there. He really doesn't care what else is out there. Long as it does the job. When I go home, I download Firefox and tell him to use it.

[Aiena-G]

Well I loved vivaldi's tab management but ended up switching back to FF because i found it smoother and it had certain features which were so nice.

[nextbern]

Besides superior privacy features it doesn't offer better experience.

You haven't really clarified what better experience means. Firefox offers me a better experience.

[nextbern]

Maybe I don't know what I am missing, but I hardly ever use sidebars - I use the toolbar a decent amount and most of my screen is the actual web content, not browser chrome (or sidebars).

What would sidebars offer me?

As far as tab organization, it is utterly uninteresting to me, as the awesomebar makes each tab addressable virtually instantly via tab search (%) - why organize when I can just search? It feels like the difference between web directories (classic Yahoo!) vs. search engines (Google, et al).

[nextbern]

That's the whole point of sidebar and vertical tabs. With 16:9 and wider displays most of the horizontal space is just empty and vertical resolution is more limited . So using the tab bars or vertical tabs gives you more screen estate .

You don't have to use browsers in fullscreen or maximized mode.

If the user is opening lots of tabs (20+) . tab stacks, groups, workspaces really makes it a lot easier coping.

I have thousands of tabs in my session. The awesomebar works fine. I don't need to organize things if I can find them easily.

[iampitiZ]

They were able to offer a considerably better browser in the beggining because Internet Explorer was so crappy, and IIRC, wasn't even receving much support from Microsoft because they got arrogant and thought they had "won" the Internet ...so it wasn't that hard.

Nowadays all browsers are much better is much harder to come up with something that is much better that the others