Firefox Market Decline

Comments focus on Firefox's falling market share, comparisons to Chrome's dominance, Mozilla's strategic choices like activism over product improvement, compatibility issues, and urgent calls for users to support Firefox to prevent a Chrome monopoly.

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Sample Comments

ssss11 Aug 27, 2021 View on HN

No. Firefox is chasing chrome though as they think everyone wants chrome.

subbz Dec 21, 2017 View on HN

When Firefox is gone from browser charts it may be too late.

aquova May 14, 2024 View on HN

I constantly see this take and I'm afraid I don't agree with it. Firefox is continuing to lose market share, and I think it's less anything they're doing and due simply to the fact that Google is a household name while Mozilla is not. When the user is already using a Google phone, email, search, maps, drive, and document editor, it follows to also use their browser. Simply being a solid browser isn't enough to motivate people to switch away. So I think they should try ou

knowknow Mar 25, 2025 View on HN

Why is Firefox considered bad now? Is Mozilla any worse than Google?

traveler01 Nov 29, 2021 View on HN

Yeah there's need to be changes around Mozilla, something like it happened to AMD I guess, otherwise the latest of us still using Firefox will get tired of it and change to any Chromium-based browser (or Safari...).

2Gkashmiri Feb 10, 2023 View on HN

Firefox dude. spent just a little bit more time and support firefox.your support is necessary otherwise you are helping google in creating a feature moat around chrome and then people say "nobody uses firefox so i wont develop for it".

jrs95 Apr 10, 2019 View on HN

It's too late. Firefox already has compatibility issues with sites I use heavily. There's a much better chance I'd use the new Chromium based Edge than Firefox at this point. And with it's usage share dropping...if moral superiority is the only thing Firefox has going for it, it's a sinking ship. Having more contributors/users of Chromium/Blink seems to be a better path towards a less Google-dominated browser landscape at this point.

bkolobara Jan 6, 2017 View on HN

My company uses Firefox LTS and all internal applications we develop must work with it.I use Chrome as my development browser, mostly because of some plugins that help me with development. From time to time I run into inconsistencies between them (latest was that Firefox closes desktop notifications after 4 seconds and you can't change this duration). Googling for this kind of issues takes me usually to the Firefox issues tracker where I find a bug that's open since 4-5 years and hu

slightwinder Dec 31, 2024 View on HN

Firefox loses, because they are doing barely anything to be better than chrome. Brave, Opera, Vivaldi, they all build and sell their own unique identity and seem to be successful enough with it. But Firefox? Basically just exists. Something about privacy and not being the big kraken, but so are all other now too. In the meanwhile Mozilla is just continuing wasting money on pointless projects which do nothing to solidify their cash cows future, while adding nothing of worth.Yes, the default Br

alcover Sep 19, 2022 View on HN

I've been using Firefox forever but the problem is - it's now too big. Because it's - like you mention - following Chrome. To stay relevant, FF implements all the bloat Chrome churns out. Even worse, it's tempted to follow Chromes' extension manifest to stay compatible.So I meant it looks like a lost battle. And it may be better to reboot to a smaller, nifter browser that a small team/community can handle.edit: and of course cut all ties with Google financing.