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      Problem is Mozilla gets most of their money from using Google as default search engine, so they can’t just remove that

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        It won’t take long until Firefox will have such a low market share that another open source browser project can take over their share of users. I am ready to switch to a better project which is not dependent on Google, that needs less funding and uses that money better.

        Edit: This is me trying to see the good in the fact that Firefox market share is dying.

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            In other words, Firefox might be around longer than looks reasonable from a distance.

            Yeah but on the other hand: the people who like firefox like it for being not google, so they would switch to a different browser that’s better in that regard, I believe

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              why you said: “It won’t take long until Firefox will have such a low market share that another open source browser project can take over their share of users.”

              “This is me trying to see the good in the fact that Firefox market share is dying”

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                  Isn’t the “elite” injecting € $ on chrome spyware ?

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    I’d rather have Mozilla show real numbers and publicise those results than just pushing to make people believe Firefox is faster

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    I am pro open-source etc but someone at mozilla should have known that publishing these findings is a little bit of a self-own.

    People don’t want to be told that they don’t know what’s better…

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        And untill the majority of Firefox users start sending money to Mozilla that’s certainly not going to change.

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          or until they’re going to stop paying millions to their ceo and other top positions and actually start paying their engineers…

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            Yes, Mozilla clearly could save money by not being located in California or paying their higher-ups such salaries.

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      Use librewolf. it’s preconfigured Firefox. it also stops most telemetry that Mozilla does.

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    I tried to find some android browser speed comparisons lately… a simple page speed load comparison between not just the marketed browsers, but the smaller ones too, is pretty hard to find.