Firefox used to be on top of the world with almost a third of all internet users using Firefox. These days, they make up a pitiful 2.7% of the market share. What happened? In this video, I want to show how Mozilla's terrible management and decisions have brought this once beloved browser down. How to make Firefox private: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr8UFJzpNls Web browser tier list: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5r6jFE8gic Why I still use Firefox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0SJFED5xK0 Credit to @BryanLunduke for his video talking about the finances of Mozilla: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KDcxSZDang 🌐 My website: https://ericmurphy.xyz 💸 Support the Channel: https://ericmurphy.xyz/donate 🎥 Watch my videos on Odysee: https://odysee.com/@ericnmurphy 💻 My GitHub: https://github.com/ericmurphyxyz Sources: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/websites/ https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2021/mozilla-fdn-2021-fs-final-1010.pdf https://www.fakespot.com/privacy-policy https://getpocket.com/en/privacy/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/sources-mozilla-extends-its-google-search-deal/ https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-the-bizarre-finances-of-mozilla https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/b-itch-to-boss/ https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/11/21363424/mozilla-layoffs-quarter-staff-250-people-new-revenue-focus https://twitter.com/lizardlucas42/status/1293232090985705478 https://www.polygon.com/2013/7/5/4496512/why-nintendos-satoru-iwata-refuses-to-lay-off-staff https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1217512049716035584 https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2018/09/26/eucodeondisinfo/ https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/the-dsa-is-not-a-justification-for-censorship/ 0:00 The fall of Firefox 1:34 Privacy promises 3:45 Why use Firefox, anyway? 4:42 Deals with the devil 7:08 Big business 8:24 Making the world a better place 9:54 Mozilla doesn't care about you 11:29 Firefox (lack of) Focus 12:02 Mismanaged funds 13:12 What happened to Firefox?

Firefox used to be on top of the world with almost a third of all internet users using Firefox. These days, they make up a pitiful 2.7% of the market share. What happened? In this video, I want to show how Mozilla’s terrible management and decisions have brought this once beloved browser down.

  • OfficerBribe@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Dislike the video format, but all the points seem valid, Mozilla has definitely taken a lot of questionable decisions and Firefox has not been their main focus for quite some time.

    Do not care much about privacy myself as far as Google and other generic tracking is concerned, I just like the add-ons and certain features in FF when compared with Chromium based browsers so that is still my main browser for personal use. For work I prefer to use Edge.

    Let’s see if Mozilla will use opportunity that Chromium browsers soon switching to Manifest V3 will provide with their future gimped adblock add-ons. Or maybe they will just do a similar change on FF side soon.

    • drkt@feddit.dkEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Let’s see if Mozilla will use opportunity that Chromium browsers soon switching to Manifest V3 will provide

      Considering that FF has not leveraged its opportunity to implement JPEG-XL ahead of Chromium, I doubt it, considering how simple and easy of a W that would’ve been.

        • drkt@feddit.dkEnglish
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          1 year ago

          It never supported it, afaik. They were talking about implementing it, but the creator of webp used his sway to shut it down. Firefox followed suit stating the same dumbass reason: “Not enough industry interest”. There was plenty of industry interest, it was just Google didn’t want a competitor to WebP. Safari announced they would implement JXL support and now we’re here. I hope Google and Mozilla get the message.