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Re:Firefox desktop market share now below 9% by karmakaze on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @04:32AM (#18597848)
There's a very interesting pattern in the data if you look back from 2016-05 to 2018-04 (chart has 24 month limit). Each April and October shows an appreciable drop in Firefox market share. This tells me that the Firefox desktop/laptop we are losing are on Linux and decide to switch to another browser when they upgrade their (probably Ubuntu based) disto.

I myself run Firefox on Xubuntu but stick to the LTS releaaes. The biggest impediment from switching from Chrome to Firefox was being familiar with the Dev Tools. One day I just did it and the change wasn't as big a deal as I thought it to be.

We really need to keep Firefox alive, it's our best, free-est option. With Microsoft replacing Edge with a Chrome-based browser this is as important as ever.

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Re:Firefox desktop market share now below 9% by botverse on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @04:42AM (#18597899)
> One day I just did it and the change wasn't as big a deal as I thought it to be.

This is so true, if everybody here thinks that should change but worried about this. It takes just a few hours, almos all features have an equivalent if not exactly the same and in the same place.

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Re:Firefox desktop market share now below 9% by krageon on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @04:50AM (#18597946)
Except FF's tools are slower and the experience is overall worse. A lot has improved about firefox (including my old main complaint, that the renderer was slow) but saying the dev tools are at all acceptable when you're used to Chrome's is sadly still a stretch.
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Re:Firefox desktop market share now below 9% by karmakaze on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @05:16AM (#18598076)
Which dev features do you find unacceptable? I still do switch back and forth, mostly at work when pairing. The other times I use Chrome and Safari is for web dev on mobile devices.

Beyond that I don't find much difference and there are as many times I find that the Firefox dev tools can do things that I can't in Chrome.

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Re:Firefox desktop market share now below 9% by ittgsv on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @05:24AM (#18598111)
Not only that, you will even find people here saying that Firefox dev tools are faster!! I wonder what kind of computers those people have.
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