@fptbb
The saddest part is that if you want to abandon ship, THERE'S NO MORE SHIPS ON THE SEA.
@TechJolt3d
Sometimes I wish that firefox (and thunderbird) were run more like a traditional open source project where the community had a really big say in things.
@lellyparker
I don't think anyone left Firefox for ideological reasons. If people hated Google so much they would not have abandoned Forefox for Google Chrome. Google just made a faster slicker browser and Firefox keeps finding ways to be slow after they do a new faster than ever revamp.
@drndn
The most important reason that Firefox needs to thrive is because it is the only alternative to Chromium, which is every other browser. If Firefox goes, Chromium will be everything, there will be a 100% monopoly, no competition.
@deivorous-3592
As someone who has stuck with Firefox for more than a decade now (it started because FF was less resource hoggy which worked for my slower computers), and I can't really imagine changing. Thanks for exposing Mozilla though, this will just make me take steps to ensure my own privacy instead of counting on the browser to do it for me.
@AdroSlice
I use Firefox. I started using it because Opera got rid of their best features like tab stacking and their email client, and switched to chromium. I continue to use Firefox because I do not wish for an internet where Google controls the entire presentation layer. I am okay with Firefox because they provide me the tools to turn off the bullshit, and make it a better experience for myself.
@Alltracavenger
The two primary reasons I still use Firefox are because I'm extremely distrustful of Google and as a result anything Chromium-based is suspect. Also, the ad blocking in Firefox is likely going to stay effective longer than anything Chromium-based. Yes, it's absolutely not perfect but I do take privacy measures that go beyond the stock setup.
@SecondLifeAround
🦆 DuckDuckGo isn’t that innocent either.
@Chaos_Rifle
I use firefox because google keeps threatening to break ad blocking plugins, and the fact they think its okay to say it at all makes it clear its not a place to stay, so a change had to be made. That leaves firefox as the next best option. Many of my IT friends did it for the same reason, at the same timeframe. It's not better, it's just not claiming its going to get worse. This is just where we are in the browser space now, sadly. Can't honestly say I have ever seen a website not work on firefox though, wtf web devs lol
@richard343s
I'm really disappointed in Mozilla for the reasons described in this video. But I still use hardened Firefox because I just don't see any better alternatives. I would rather not use a chromium based browser.
@eUploads
Firefox might gain some new users if Google finally ends up banning ad blockers from chrome
@beavatatlan
Remember Firefox? yes. I'm watching this in a firefox browser
@flioink
"Remember that fox browser?" That one I've been using since forever?
@Seriously_Unserious
There's another huge factor Eric Murphy completely misses as to why Mozilla's Firefox is failing - Brave. Mozilla ran their founder out of the company on fake accusations of the usual, racism, misogamy and the like, then that new CEO who's paying herself more and more money while dancing on the grave of Mozilla. The founder when and founded a new privacy focused browser, Brave, as a fork of the popular Chrome browser, so when you use Brave, you basically get Chrome but without Google's tracking and spyware junk. If you were to have added Brave's market share into the mix, I suspect you'd see Brave's market share growing as Mozilla's shrinks. Also not mentioned specifically, but which was a huge factor in me leaving Firefox for Brave was that Firefox changed their whole UI from being it's own thing to being just a cheap imitation of Chrome. I'm not a fan of the Chrome UI, though I have gotten used to it and tolerate it in Brave, I really liked the classic Firefox UI, and found it WAT MORE user friendly then this jam everything into one cryptic place so you can't figure out where anything is as there's no logical groupings anymore crap that these "experts" SAY is EASIER on the user.
@davidturcotte831
I think a lot of the Firefox decline is due to more people acquiring computers. As non-tech people acquire computers, they use whatever other people give them and don't look much further. They use their computers as appliances for accessing Facebook or YouTube. They don't know what their browser is. I've heard, in person, someone say "my circle is gone". They deleted their link to Chrome on their Windows 11 desktop. There is also the increase in the use of Chromebooks. These use Chrome. That means a huge chunk of the education market uses Chrome. If the market increases and the number of users stays the same, Firefox will see its market share decline. The decrease in users can be partly described by people jumping ship. I know people who moved to Edge. I know people who moved to Chrome. There are also a lot of people who moved to alternatives like Vivaldi and Librewolf. There are so many confounding variables.
@charlesrichards5389
Up until about 5 years ago, FireFox had a neat feature where you could right-click a bookmark and one of the options was a text-box in which you could enter descriptions (which must've taken up an imperceptible amount of code). People were using this box to store their user-names and password hints so it could be brought up when using that bookmark. FireFox said they removed it because their telemetry said few people were using this feature. In reality, people using these text-boxes tended to be power-users who also blocked telemetry. 😖
@fauzirahman3285
I'm a firefox user and I strip many of these features and change the settings. I can completely understand why some people leave Firefox for privacy reasons, but moving towards Chrome for that doesn't make sense. Moving to a more obscure privacy focused browser would make more sense. At the moment I'll happily move to a forked Firefox browser where I can still use the same extensions.
@okRegan
Um, this is just wrong, you can just sign in a synch across devices, in a new device, when signing in, you not only get access to your bookmarks, but everything, extensions and even some extension settings get installed, your history, browser preferences and themes. And you can seamlessly switch between all devices and send tabs between devices. I'm disregarding this whole video as biased or poorly reaserched just from that one lie
@doncaper
What speed are you missing by using firefox? If there is a difference? it must be miliseconds because I don't notice any issues with the speed of Firefox. Why did you say you can't log in with your google account and sync firefox across all your devices? That's UNTRUE, it absolutely syncs across devices, seamlessly. What webites have you used that dont support Firefox? 20 years now and I haven't had that issue.
@merevial