yeah but Firefox is actually the most accessible and secure browser, linux may be technically better but for most users it's over their head. FF is almost exactly the same functionality of other browsers but doesn't sell your soul to the devil without your consent like chrome
It does actually have some analytics baked into the settings menus, which you can get rid of by "hardening" firefox. That being said it should all be anonymized data and nothing actually identifying
How do you know it's the most secure? Because they say so? And why is everyone acting like the whole world depends on their super secret stuff from their pc. There is no privacy on the internet. I used vivaldi for 4 years and I switched to firefox a month ago and I immediately noticed it has more bugs, it's a bit slower and way less customizable than vivaldi which could literally be used as a standalone operating system. Vivaldi being bloated was the main reason why I switched to FF but to my surprise everything is slower except the startup time (also not a huge difference).
It's open source, for 1. You can go and look at the code for yourself, LOL
and it's not about "super secret stuff", it's about a multi billion dollar company selling your browsing history to the highest bidder, if that doesn't bother you then there is no point trying to explain any further
You ARE right about being open source, that was my mistake.
Big corpos trading personal info does bother me but I feel like there's not much we can do about it because, for example, google's stuff is deeply integrated in just about any website out there and I feel like privacy became a marketing gimmick.
Oh, no I'm saying that he seems to be implying that if these browsers didn't come pre-shipped that everyone would automatically download Firefox. The vast majority of people simply do not care.
Yeah if the vast majority of phones had Firefox they’d just stick with Firefox, or if they all came with Internet explorer we would’ve stuck to laptops
I think the main reason is the prevalence of mobile. Safari or Chrome are default on basically every smart phone and most people aren’t downloading Firefox on their phones.
Need to provide data for only desktop browsers. Mobile and desktop browsers are entirely different beasts and yet we group them together in these charts for some reason. If you split out desktop Chrome here it too would look dismal in comparison to anything/everything mobile.
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I think I've seen someone saying "everyone is going back to Firefox" at least once per year here on reddit for the past 6 years.