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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 27 2017, @04:22AM
Precisely, the devs completely ignored their userbase and pretty much destroyed any reason for people to choose their project over chrome. It's things like choosing to change their numbering system to the asinine one that Chrome uses where you get a million major releases without any purpose. Changing the UI to more closely match what Chrome was doing.
Jetpack and e10s were great ideas, but the breaking of the UI regularly for no good reason and the removal of useful features like smart folders and the way that the wowbar was handled did them no favors.
I still use Fx because it's better on FreeBSD than the other options, but it's hard for me to be particularly enthusiastic about it when the developers clearly don't care if anybody uses their software.