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Article seems pretty flawed. Relevance is a vague metric, and the author relies pretty heavily on data related to government site visitation, which seems subject to bias toward certain types of users.

Market share is likely still incredibly low, but Firefox's relevance should be spiking right now due to Google's shenanigans with Chromium. The fact that like 90% of revenue for its for-profit wing is from Google is still troubling.

Any alternative views out there?

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[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (18 children)

I only use FF in Linux, I tried on Android but it's somewhat bad 😔

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

I've found the reason it's not great on mobile is because even if you tell your android phone to use Firefox as default it simply ignores it and uses chrome anyways

Edit: I was able to get it to work properly as my default browser but I had to disable chrome in the app settings. Now it's great

[–] ares35@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

be sure to actually launch firefox and don't use the google 'app' either.

[–] Jesus_666@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Can't confirm. My default browser and web view are Firefox on both Sony and Samsung devices.

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[–] elmicha@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

I use Firefox on Linux, Windows (at work), and Android, and I like it.

[–] moitoi@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Was ZDNet once a good source for news?

[–] 01011@monero.town 1 points 1 year ago

Raises eyebrows at article viewed via Firefox

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I did not know Firefox was a Netscape descendant.

In what way are the normal statistics "massaged"? As far as I can tell, they just have normal quality control. And, honestly, they don't massively disagree, Firefox is apparently at 3% or so now, via Statcounter.

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