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Firefox 89: Can this redesign stem browser's decline?:
Mozilla has released Firefox 89, proclaiming it a "fresh new Firefox," though it comes amid a relentless decline in market share.
Firefox matters more than most web browsers, because it uses its own browser engine, called Quantum, and its own JavaScript engine, called SpiderMonkey. By contrast, most other browsers, including Chrome and Chromium, Edge, Brave, Opera, and Vivaldi use the Google-sponsored Blink engine, while Apple's Safari uses WebKit (from which Blink was forked). The existence of multiple independent implementations is important for web standards, helping to prevent a single vendor from pushing through changes without consensus, and ensuring that the standards are coherent.
A glance at a statistics site like W3Counter is telling. In April 2008, Microsoft enjoyed a 63 per cent market share with Internet Explorer, and with Firefox performing strongly behind it at 29.3 per cent. By April 2010, IE was down to 48.6 per cent, Firefox up to 32.7 per cent, and Google's newer Chrome was starting to make an impact, at 8.3 per cent.
In April 2012, the three were almost on a par, though Chrome (26.8 per cent) had overtaken Firefox (25 per cent). Today, Chrome is at 65.3 per cent, Safari second at 16.7 per cent, IE and Edge has 5.7 per cent, and Firefox has just 4.1 per cent share. Despite numerous updates, Mozilla's browser has declined from 6.1 per cent share a year ago. Statcounter tells a similar story, reporting a 3.59 per cent share for Firefox, down from 4.21 per cent a year ago.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 07 2021, @12:40AM (5 children)
He said dying organizations. As much as you might hate them, the Republican party is not dying. It might get torn in two by Trump, but that is different to a slow death from cancer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 07 2021, @02:54AM (4 children)
The percentage of individuals that self identify has Republican has fallen steadily (including "leans") over the years. Moreover, the trend seems to be accelerating thanks to demographic shifts. The party (both of them really) seem to be in trouble and have been for decades, Trump just exacerbated a problem that already existed and made it much more visible with what was essentially the Tea Party 2.0.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 07 2021, @03:24AM (2 children)
Which is why at the last election Republicans got the highest vote count they have ever gotten. Whatever problems they have, a dying party is not one of them.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday June 07 2021, @06:54AM (1 child)
Didn't the last election set records for both sides, for total vote counts?
Going from 100k to 1m voter turnout, two-party system, one side could go from 50% of the vote to 6% and still have the "best turnout ever" (50k vs 60k).
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 07 2021, @09:34PM
Plus there is the per capita adjustment and the rising number of apathetic and roll off voters. And you have to factor in the fact that in a two party system, you may not lean towards a party, but you can vote against a party. Or you can vote based on the particular candidate. How many times have you heard, "I don't like {particular party or person} but it's better than the alternative, in your life? Those votes count for that candidate and their party, but it certainly wasn't "for" that candidate or their party. That is part of the reason why the tactics they're increasingly using have adopted that sort of messaging, even beyond generic fear and negative ads.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday June 11 2021, @03:07PM
You haven't paid attention to the vote count.
2016 Trump/Clinton received 94.3%
2020 Trump/Biden.. received 98.2%
Over 98% of congress was reelected
The Party is doing better than ever, and overflowing with money. You needn't fret over them.
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..