poor firefox
I've always loved Firefox because it's open source, privacy-focused, and developed by a nonprofit rather than a company whose business depends on advertising. Despite all of that, it seems like relatively few people use it compared to other browsers.
Why do you think Firefox hasn't become more popular? Is it mainly because of marketing, website compatibility, user habits, or something else? I'd be interested to hear the community's thoughts.
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I would say the couple hundred million users is pretty "popular", no? The closest equivalent from the time would be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konqueror that however dropped own KHTML and went chromium–based recently like anything else; only the present–day Epiphany https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Web is sort of a KHTML legacy via the WebKit fork… and these will have order(s?) of magnitude smaller market share.
If you're asking why over the decades one monopoly of Internet Explorers went straight to another monopoly of Chromium flavors the simplest optics is platform defaults. Consumers don't care about what's between their camera and their search engine, and the cheaper with more freebies thrown in the better. So those that own the operating systems and mobile platforms have the edge (sic!) to plow over anything independent… and most of the billions of consumers don't make the intentional choice to use something else for… any specific reason. And maybe they even don't have these reasons. Or stopped caring long time ago, given they've already given up any privacy using all their big tech platforms at this point, in exchange for convenience (think Sign in with Facebook / Google type of things just one click away for most people… not thinking twice about the implications in profiling and collecting data etc.)…
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