Firefox web browser popularity wanes

When you take a look at Net Applications' web desktop browser market share reports over the long run two things stand out. One, there's the rise of Google's Chrome to second place, and two, Mozilla's Firefox's steep decline.

How bad is Firefox's fall? In June 2014, Firefox hit a new five-year low of 15.6 percent market share.

Back in October 2009, Firefox was on the rise and had reached 23.75 percent. Life was good. Since July 2012, the browser started trending downward. Indeed, since May 2013, with Firefox at 20.6%, the once popular browser hasn't risen above 20%.

Read more at: Firefox web browser popularity wanes | ZDNet
 
I'll keep using Firefox. Haven't used IE since version 8. Tried Chrome, don't like it.
 

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Mozilla's Own Fault

They just don't get it.
The more useless fluff they add and the more pointless GUI changes they make, the faster they fall.
:doh:

I swapped to Pale Moon (FF fork) as a protest against useless fluff.
I'm not likely to go back to FF, due to their new horrible, Chrome-style, "touch-friendly" GUI (FF29+).
 

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As FF was my previous main browser before IE11, I find it less and less useful everyday. I use it for one site that won't work in Modern IE and even then, I can use IE on desktop. The only reasons I am holding on to it is the Lastpass plugin convenience and a dark theme. I can switch to just using the Lastpass bookmarklet in desktop IE, just haven't got around to it. The dark theme... Well, don't know if it's worth it to keep dealing with the damn FF memory leaks anymore. It may just be time to go all IE.
 

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I used to be FF fan and had all kind of add-ons. But one i tried Chrome and enjoyed the non-crashing, i never went back.

and every update to FF doesn't' seem to focus on stability, but more features. All I need is Xmark to sync all my bookmarks (across browsers). Back then I opened 10 pages on both Chrome and FF. FF was using 3-4 times the memory and the memory usage was increasing with me doing nothing (memory leak). This and the ongoing crashes made me never go back to FF. chrome never crashed on me and is always fast. FF crashed a lot and at times was very slow. Not sure that improved...
 

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Well of course their popularity has waned.... they tried to pull a 'microsoft', by trying to ram unwanted changes down their customers throats, only to find, surprise surprise, that people hate that kinda rubbish.

I too am using Palemoon now, although I had been using Cyberfox before and not FF proper.
 

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Well of course their popularity has waned.... they tried to pull a 'microsoft', by trying to ram unwanted changes down their customers throats, only to find, surprise surprise, that people hate that kinda rubbish.

I too am using Palemoon now, although I had been using Cyberfox before and not FF proper.

i couldn't agree more. I have no idea what these companies are thinking anymore. It certainly isn't about making software that users actually want....
 

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I'll keep using FF...
 

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I changed to the 64 bit Waterfox at the time of upgrading to Windows 8 and have been perfectly happy with both it's performance and appearance.
Regards, Yorky.
 

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I.E.11 is my primary browser, and FF is my secondary. But, I like the Adblock Plus that is available with FF.

I tried Chrome and it didn't really work any better or faster than Internet Explorer, plus Chrome forced the Google updater which caused conflicts with my recording studio software, even though I disable the NIC and several other items when I run the recording studio applications. The only way I found to completely rid the PC of the Google Updater's plethora of registry items was to manually edit the registry and delete them. Just uninstalling Google, even with Revo Uninstaller, did not get rid of the updater.

I had Opera at one time, but I didn't like the latest version and uninstalled it.

I.E. and FF, when off line, are non intrusive with my recording studio applications.
 

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Well of course their popularity has waned.... they tried to pull a 'microsoft', by trying to ram unwanted changes down their customers throats, only to find, surprise surprise, that people hate that kinda rubbish.

I too am using Palemoon now, although I had been using Cyberfox before and not FF proper.

This exactly. Talking about adding ads to a new tab and shoving Australis UI down our throats is just too much. Internet Explorer is also complete and utter garbage. Slow and resource hungry.
 

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Presently I use PM as my primary and Firefox/Opera as my secondary. I've never have been a fan of IE.
It just never felt "right" to me for some reason,.
Jeff
 

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False alarm. The supposed count includes mobile devices--of which Google's Android outsells Apple 4-1. Restrict the picture to the 1.5 billion or so Windows PCs in use every day around the world, and the picture is far different (where the FF share is much greater.)

In fact, the last one I saw in which computers alone were tallied, FF was leading Chrome by a healthy margin.
 

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What's wrong with me?
I like Firefox and Windows 8.1 and the Start Screen.

Jim :cool:
 

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What's wrong with me?
I like Firefox and Windows 8.1 and the Start Screen.

Jim :cool:

I have to agree with you Jim. I like WIn8.1, and Firefox. Oh and the Start Screen has never been
an issue for me.

Jeff
 

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I used to be FF fan and had all kind of add-ons. But one i tried Chrome and enjoyed the non-crashing, i never went back.

and every update to FF doesn't' seem to focus on stability, but more features. All I need is Xmark to sync all my bookmarks (across browsers). Back then I opened 10 pages on both Chrome and FF. FF was using 3-4 times the memory and the memory usage was increasing with me doing nothing (memory leak). This and the ongoing crashes made me never go back to FF. chrome never crashed on me and is always fast. FF crashed a lot and at times was very slow. Not sure that improved...
Only time I had a problem with FF crashing was because of some malware. That malware caused other programs to crash too. Running Adwcleaner fixed that.
 

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... you just can't customize any other browser the way you can with Firefox.
Starting with the following page are some of the most prominent configurations you can make for stability, security and performance in Firefox:

TweakGuides.com - Firefox Tweak Guide
 

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Firefox only looked good because the competition was IE6, they've been behind for years in features, performance and security. I wonder if it's a lack of resources or they've been mismanaged instead.
 

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should be a month from now just like 3 years ago where the bloggers and same people from zdnet and such with the firefox is dead headlines saying Google wont renew the deal with them, then the deal gets renewed and the the same bloggers go hibernate for three years. With the restrictions on browsers lifted by apple my guess is you will see a firfeox browser for the ipad which will make a big difference for mozilla in the coming years. AS bad as the mainstream media is nothing is as bad as the click bait online media
 

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