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Re:Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, ... by eyegor on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @07:29PM (#22242767)
Even if Mozilla were to bundle ublock into the standard Firefox install, it probably wouldn't matter. As much as I love using it, its marketshare has been on a slow spiral for a while, down to 4-8% right now. I'm willing to bet a decent proportion of those users already use some form of adblock due to the frequency of obscure Firefox only issues I've seen, which tend to push away non tech folk. I've never met a non technical person who prefers Firefox. Because every now and again, you'll run into a website that renders wrong or shows you a scary popup for having a non Google user agent. Or you'll run into issues with proprietary drm solutions that were only tested under Chrome. Or you'll get lots of the obnoxious "click on all the sidewalks" captchas, which won't happen on Chrome unless you use a sketchy VPN service.
Re:Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, ... by jraph on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @08:24PM (#22243128)
> I've never met a non technical person who prefers Firefox.

I know plenty of non technical people here who like and use Firefox as their main/only browser by choice. The Firefox UI is fine.

Your concerns about compatibility are valid though. I've not run into such issues myself and people around me neither (except for Jitsi Meet, which works on Firefox but not optimally. They are going to fix this though.) but I know they exist.

Re:Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, ... by bambax on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @04:22AM (#22245257)
I've been using FF on mobile + uBlock for over two years with zero issues; I moved to FF on desktop a few months ago, with also zero issues.
Re:Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, ... by metadaemon on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @10:54AM (#22247864)
While I am technical, I also use FF exclusively on all platforms. I actually find it more performant than Chrome and way less of a memory hog.
Re:Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, ... by LegitShady on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @06:24PM (#22251945)
It doesn't seem to run as well as chrome for me on a pixel 3a. I'm assuming you have a faster phone?
Re:Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, ... by rorykoehler on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @10:37PM (#22243795)
I recently moved back to Firefox from Chrome as my main browser. I expect this will happen more and more as Chrome's UX continues to degrade.
Re:Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, ... by feanaro on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @03:48AM (#22245083)
> I've never met a non technical person who prefers Firefox.

This is just your social circle bias. My social circle almost universally uses Firefox and it doesn't include techies only.

Re:Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, ... by Semaphor on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @10:57PM (#22243871)
In Germany, FF still has 25% market share on desktop (tbf, the numbers look atrocious on mobile, but still).
Re:Firefox Preview adds support for recommended extensions, ... by aembleton on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @05:47AM (#22245671)
Maybe users of Firefox on mobile are using it for uBlock which will block the tracking that is necessary to get these metrics.

Firefox market share may well be higher on mobile but we just don't know about it.