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Re:Firefox desktop market share now below 9% by jabl on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @01:52AM (#18596963)
FirefoxOS never had a snowball's chance in hell against Android and iOS. I wish it were otherwise, but it's not, and never was.

But yes, I agree that FF market share problems are not due to problems with the product itself.

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Re:Firefox desktop market share now below 9% by ittgsv on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @05:27AM (#18598127)
Firefox OS was a terrible idea. Gecko is horribly slow as it is, and they put it on low-end, under-powered mobile phones. As it was expected, using it for a few minutes made you want to hang yourself. I know they met with bosses from telecos, I wonder what faces they made when they showed them how the mobile behaved.
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Re:Firefox desktop market share now below 9% by littlestymaar on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @03:28AM (#18606549)
I used to have a Flame, the FirefoxOS development phone (which was the higher-end FFxOS device but was still bellow $200), and it was WAY snappier than my current Android phone (which is a $400 one!).
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