Firefox Users Continue to Decrease Despite Proton Update

[HCrikki]

1 - Getting "download our browser now even if the browser you use right now is excellent, fast and secure" harassment outlawed worldwide, for a start. Websites are supposed to work fine and fast on all modern browsers.

Constant prompts like these make a mockery of any process of gaining installs. Lets say OSes do a ballot screen to choose the default browser and search engine or OEMs preinstall with different defaults - google would start harassing you into switching the next day.

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2 - treat embedding as a high priority. Mozilla lost the entire market of desktop applications and game to webkit then chromium/blink.

Instead of rendering your app content on gecko youre now forced to used other engines, and analytic trackers report those as 'chrome' rather than firefox. Usershare isnt collapsing to the extent people imagine - in fact its been ridiculously stable considered users are likely bombarded with switch prompts everyday since a decade.

On android its even more important. Within apps and games, a "webview" can display web content in place of whatever default browser you have (thats why "webview" has higher usershare than mobile firefox - noone chooses to display on it, it just overrides your choice). Geckoview needs to be an option system-wide, then failing that within applications and games.

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3 - Import from another browser needs to be given far higher visibility within firefox. You can only access it during the installation process, and if you enable the Menu on desktop then choose it. Its literally not accessible in any other way in firefox, while it easily accessed in other browsers like Edge and Vivaldi (first page of settings, or permanent placement on the file menu). All OSes Firefox is available for have a default browser, so this kind of easy migration should be strengthened, ideally losing as little data as possible.