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wraith808:
An incredibly shrinking Firefox faces endangered species status (via Computerworld)

I have Pale Moon on my machine- which I guess wouldn't count.  And FF on another, which would.  But I use Chrome more than either.

MilesAhead:
An incredibly shrinking Firefox faces endangered species status (via Computerworld)

I have Pale Moon on my machine- which I guess wouldn't count.  And FF on another, which would.  But I use Chrome more than either.
-wraith808 (March 09, 2015, 10:00 AM)
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That seems awfully weird.  It's like if all of a sudden somebody said only 1/2 million people world wide were still running Windows OS.  For a browser that nobody uses, it sure seems like everyone prefers it.  :)

dr_andus:
I've tried many times to switch to Chrome on my PC and netbook (to benefit from syncing with my Chromebook and Android tablet), but I came back to FF every time, as I just keep finding Chrome inferior to FF in my Win7 and XP environments. So as long as Chrome continues to underperform in Win (and MS doesn't come up with something better than IE), there should be hope for FF...

1NR1:
Hello,
Firefox is a great browser.  Mozilla is outdated.

With all the kiddie phones, pads, etc. etc. now the Medium isn't the Message anymore, the message is IN the medium...imbedded, sold and bought in hypnotic flashes of targeted ads to a generation who wouldn't know a 360 from a punch card (forget about DARPA). So what has happened is this baseline has switched so far afield from the things that firefox can do...Adblock, NoScript and others, so that from an early age the newest users are convinced their way, that is the way they are sold, is the best.

Firefox needs a mobile browser that becomes the killer app, with killer apps.  Then the Apple store and the Amazon store and the Google store will have a harder time paying off the developers who make the adds stop blaring.

NR
Washington DC

TaoPhoenix:
I've tried many times to switch to Chrome on my PC and netbook (to benefit from syncing with my Chromebook and Android tablet), but I came back to FF every time, as I just keep finding Chrome inferior to FF in my Win7 and XP environments. So as long as Chrome continues to underperform in Win (and MS doesn't come up with something better than IE), there should be hope for FF...
-dr_andus (March 09, 2015, 10:57 AM)
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I keep saying I have no interest in the back end rendering, and just use FF for its extension-AddOns plus a Classic Restorer menu.

I don't know why anyone hasn't stuck a "Classic FF" add-on to Chrome. Then see the news elsewhere add-ons are getting all wiggly and stuff.

Although it never worked for me, at a distance I can respect the Linux philosophy that the back end is de-coupled from the front end UI. But in BrowserLand, I'm a FF-Clone guy because nothing else has ever made any sense in any way.

And I just saw that Josh from the controversial Button Masher Bros did a live stream and griped "damnit, that's right, lots of these Unity games don't run in Chrome". And I like my LudumDare stuff. So if an entire browser can't run games, why bother to use it?

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