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Re:Mozilla's midlife crisis: from web pioneer to Google's we... by eastbound on Sunday October 01, 2023 @08:32AM (#37725320)
It only exists because people with an ideal keep trying to stay as users. Ideals die hard, so the long trail will be long, but Firefox is effectively as niche as Linux on the desktop.
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Re:Mozilla's midlife crisis: from web pioneer to Google's we... by jacquesm on Sunday October 01, 2023 @10:05AM (#37726059)
Fortunately for me I have both FF and Linux on the desktop. Now that they've finally fixed web midi even that reason to have Chrome has gone away.
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Re:Mozilla's midlife crisis: from web pioneer to Google's we... by jqpabc123 on Sunday October 01, 2023 @10:19AM (#37726180)
I suspect that most remaining FF users are running it on Linux desktop.
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Re:Mozilla's midlife crisis: from web pioneer to Google's we... by pseudalopex on Sunday October 01, 2023 @06:56PM (#37731818)
Most Firefox requests to Wikimedia sites say Windows.[1]

[1] https://analytics.wikimedia.org/dashboards/browsers/#all-sit...

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Re:Mozilla's midlife crisis: from web pioneer to Google's we... by KronisLV on Sunday October 01, 2023 @06:58PM (#37731828)
> I suspect that most remaining FF users are running it on Linux desktop.

Personally, I run it everywhere: on my phone, on my Windows desktop, on my Linux desktop, on my Linux netbook. Not even because of any particularly strongly held stances - it's just a nice browser that I like and it runs pretty well everywhere (plus the devtools are the most usable for me).

That said, I'm fairly sure that the majority of Linux desktop users are also using Firefox, because it's typically the default browser in most distros.

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Re:Mozilla's midlife crisis: from web pioneer to Google's we... by dzonga on Monday October 02, 2023 @07:37AM (#37736871)
I run as default on my mac.

used to run it as default on my android phone -- but ahh mozill doesn't care about it enough. pretty unstable

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