Firefox is on the verge of extinction. What can they do about it?
youtu.be
The web without Firefox is a web not worth having. Metrics: https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activityhttps://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/m...
  • Zerush
    31·
    3 years ago

    What can they do? In first line to put the userinterests in front and not the own of the company, this what Mozilla do in last years, apart with their deal with the Devil (Google). The other reason is, that, because Blink is the predominant engine in the web, most pages are optimized for it. A catastrophe if Firefox disappears? I don’t think. Over the years, apart from 20 years ago there have only been 3 engines, WebKit, based on the engine developed by KDE and used by Apple, Blink a development based on it and Gecko, developed by Mozilla. There are also other marginal ones that have disappeared due to lack of compatibility with new web standards (f.Ex.Presto). This is precisely also a problem with Gecko, although it can still render the current contents, it does not do it with the efficiency of Blink, which is expressed in several Benchmarks, with a result significantly inferior to those of Blink, which for this reason will take the lead. as a web standard.

    Technological developments always converge to a unified format, which facilitates the development and improvements to be done with different systems, this has nothing to do with dominance or monopolies, they are simply practical aspects.

    “It will be very bad, if one day the metric system prevails in world technology.” https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-01-mn-17288-story.html

      • Zerush
        2·
        3 years ago

        Yes, I use Vivaldi since 6 years now and I see every day in it’s Forum new users, which abandoned Firefox for this reason, even a lot of Linux users. Not bad for a small Icelandic cooperative.

        • ailiphilia
          4·
          3 years ago

          I’m happy with Librewolf, it’s good to have choice :-))

          • Zerush
            1·
            3 years ago

            Yes, but, do you use sync? AFAIk all of the FF forks use sync with Mozilla, with this you ar in the same problem with Google surveillance (Alphabet.INC and Google analytics) and future Gecko developments. Well, it’s good as long as it serves you.

            • ailiphilia
              2·
              3 years ago

              Yes, I do use sync and resist fingerprinting.I know it’s not perfect and has downsides, but for my use case it works. One of my next project is self- hosted searx engine and then comes Nextcloud. That’ll be tough as I am a finance person but a self-taught coder :-))

              • Zerush
                2·
                3 years ago

                If you can self hot search engines, apart of Searx, try also Whoogle. It is always good to have several alternatives in the search. I use ANDI as primary search, apart from these some specific ones, like Wikipedia, Wolfram Alpha, PixaBay, etc. Not self hosted, but very useful.

                • ailiphilia
                  1·
                  3 years ago

                  Thanks for this. I know Whoogle, but never heard of ANDI. I will definitely look into this.

  • Vegafjord eo
    12·
    3 years ago

    Https rewards bloat. We should pick protocols that is simpler to develop for.