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Re:Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium by Mathnerd314 on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @11:03AM (#21826191)
There's still breakage in small areas: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1601831 https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/25270

IIRC though the main issue with YouTube was a slow polyfill library which has been fixed since they updated to the standardized version of Shadow DOM.

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Re:Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium by tyingq on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @11:15AM (#21826331)
Ah, that's good news then. I am somewhat worried about the Chrome monoculture with Edge going that direction and Chrome marketshare continuing to grow.
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Re:Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium by Dolores12 on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @11:27AM (#21826476)
Vivaldi reports itself as Chrome now, making Chrome numbers even higher
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Re:Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium by The_rationalist on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @12:34PM (#21827187)
Firefox will eventually die in 5 to 10 years if the marketshare trend continue. Firefox for Android already has a negligible number of users and as a consequence webmasters stopped to worry about making their mobile websites compatible with the limitations of Firefox.
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Re:Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium by staplers on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @01:13PM (#21827563)
I would reckon a lot of those statistics are based on analytics rather than polling.

In which case Firefox blocks a lot of trackers so naturally their marketshare appears less than reality.

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Re:Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium by The_rationalist on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @03:07PM (#21828838)
Adblock plus + uBlock == 6.5 millions of users for Firefox.

While this is not nothing, this should be a few 0.x % of global browser marketshare

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Re:Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium by input_sh on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @04:02PM (#21829420)
Firefox blocks trackers by default, no need for an add-on.
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Re:Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium by fencepost on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @05:13PM (#21830021)
The android market share is a real shame, because Ff on Android is actually pretty darn solid.
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Re:Why we Forked Firefox and Not Chromium by Nextgrid on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @07:38PM (#21831003)
YouTube is still unusably slow on Safari.
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