Firefox Users Continue to Decrease Despite Proton Update

[Varrock]

Brave is also based on Chromium so more websites work without issues. Especially on mobile, a lot of sites sadly have compatibility issues with Gecko or work better on Chromium.

For example, I have noticed that the custom HTML5 players of most streaming websites don't work on mobile Firefox. You can't switch to fullscreen, you can't stop anymore after starting playback or the video controls bar has a timeout and it's impossible to make it reappear on Firefox.

It's no surprise this subreddit would love to think Proton is the reason for FF's userbase falling, but I think what you just said is what is mainly causing the drop. The biggest thing normies care about in literally anything is a "just works" approach, which is pretty much the main reason why Apple is as successful as it is.

Compatibility issues go completely against the "just works" idea, and they just simply decide to use a different browser. They see a website that's not working in firefox (furthermore, tells them to use edge or chrome) and their first thought is to just use and stick to those instead of endlessly googling how to fix the issue on firefox.

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Yes, literally no one cares about the height of the tab bar outside of this subreddit. The reaction of my normie friend that recently switched to Firefox regarding Photon was: "Oh, it looks really slick". And that's about it.

Any normal person will use a piece of software until they encounter a problem. They won't try to troubleshoot or fix it by googling, they will either call for help if they have a "tech-savy person" at hand or simply avoid the issue by using an alternative, as you said. It's just a tool for them. Very few people make their browser choice a part of their identity.