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When Firefox was introduced in 2004, it was designed to be a lean and optimized web browser, based on the bloated code from the Mozilla Suite. Between 2004 and 2009, many considered Firefox to be the best web browser, since it was faster, more secure, offered tabbed browsing and was more customizable through extensions than Microsoft's Internet Explorer. When Chrome was introduced in 2008, it took many of Firefox's best ideas and improved on them. Since 2010, Chrome has eaten away at Firefox's market share, relegating Firefox to a tiny niche of free software enthusiasts and tinkerers who like the customization of its XUL extensions.
According to StatCounter, Firefox's market share of web browsers has fallen from 31.8% in December 2009 to just 6.1% today. Firefox can take comfort in the fact that it is now virtually tied with its former arch-nemesis, Internet Explorer and its variants. All of Microsoft's browsers only account for 6.2% of current web browsing according to StatCounter. Microsoft has largely been replaced by Google, whose web browsers now controls 56.5% of the market. Even worse, is the fact that the WebKit engine used by Google now represents over 83% of web browsing, so web sites are increasingly focusing on compatibility with just one web engine. While Google and Apple are more supportive of W3C and open standards than Microsoft was in the late 90s, the web is increasingly being monopolized by one web engine and two companies, whose business models are not always based on the best interests of users or their rights.
(Score: 5, Informative) by bradley13 on Sunday November 26 2017, @09:46AM
The domination by one or two web engines is at least partly the fault of W3C: They never met a kitchen sink they couldn't toss into their standards.
To take an example: I remember working with CSS as it developed. CSS v1 was trivial, clearly too limited. CSS 2 filled in most of the holes, but was still reasonably small. CSS 3 was argued about over years, and became huge.
By allowing web standards to become overly complex, W3C has made maintaining - much less creating - web engines incredibly expensive. That is the root cause of the lack of options.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.