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Re:JavaScript performance, WebAssembly, and Shared Memory in... by hutzlibu on Thursday April 20, 2017 @04:41PM (#14160645)
"to support a dying browser"

Wow, this is the first time I read FF being described as a "dying browser".

Even though I don't think so and other sources https://www.netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qpr... say about 12% market share, the fact alone that someone describes it like that, is very sad ...

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Re:JavaScript performance, WebAssembly, and Shared Memory in... by mbell on Thursday April 20, 2017 @11:43PM (#14162957)
> say about 12% market share

12% of desktop, ~5-6% of total. 3 years ago it was ~18% of total, there is certainly a consistent downward trend in usage.

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Re:JavaScript performance, WebAssembly, and Shared Memory in... by hutzlibu on Friday April 21, 2017 @04:36AM (#14163929)
No doubt about the down thing, I also rarely use FF nowdays, but a downtrend is a different thing from "dying". Plus, I am optimistic about servo ...
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Re:JavaScript performance, WebAssembly, and Shared Memory in... by gnaritas on Thursday April 20, 2017 @06:48PM (#14161588)
It used to be much higher than 12%, so it is actually a dying browser.
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