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Re:Firefox: Announcing Project Mortar by bobajeff on Friday September 30, 2016 @04:12PM (#12614999)
For how long? Sure they have a deal with Yahoo (Verizon?) that could fund them for some time. When that deal runs its course what do they have to bargain with?

Their market share is currently in the single digits on the desktop and they have virtually no market share on mobile which increasingly is more relevant than the desktop in terms of usage.

It's smart for them to decrease costs and maintenance burden right now while they still have the resources.

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Re:Firefox: Announcing Project Mortar by wodenokoto on Friday September 30, 2016 @04:44PM (#12615182)
Desktop usage is still around 15% according to statcounter. They are ~7% across devices.

Firefox for Android has become really good, and I prefer it to Chrome, but my impression is that mobile users are very unlikely to stray from their default browser, even if it is just the blue globe "internet"

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Re:Firefox: Announcing Project Mortar by floatboth on Saturday October 01, 2016 @04:23AM (#12617022)
well, until those users want to block ads...
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Re:Firefox: Announcing Project Mortar by makomk on Friday September 30, 2016 @04:35PM (#12615124)
I'd like to use them on mobile, mainly because ads are so absolutely obnoxious on there, but their user interface isn't that great and seems to be the one place they haven't copied Chrome.
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