One other thing to remember, is to check the falling of desktop usage, because a large part of the modern internet users are mobile-only, and the amount of people who use anything but what Google tells them to (or Apple allows them to) is vanishingly small.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38533109

I'm a Chrome user. Both on desktop and mobile because of the built in syncing.

If I were able to switch to Firefox mobile (Android), I would. But the rendering is often broken or awkwardly different on Firefox mobile. I thought this is a thing of the past...

When I reported the scrolling issue, with a screen video included, my report was closed without fix, even though the reviewer confirmed the behavior.

You can't say that Firefox on Android doesn't have issues for you, when it has known issues for some of the most popular websites. Maybe it's your usage patterns, maybe you just read articles, but web apps do have issues. And I wish it didn't because I want to use Firefox.

You'd have to prise it from my cold dead hands. By far the best mobile browsing experience.

Not entirely perfect, there's a bug where I'll occasionally get a grey screen on a tab. Hasn't happened enough for me to do anything about tho.

But still orders of magnitude better than my experience with Chrome on Android.

I wish I could reproduce it to file a bug report. These stability bugs are the reason I'm hesitant to recommend Firefox to non-technophiles, especially since the web is unusable without at least an ad blocker. While I still use Firefox, Brave seems to be doing a much better job at blocking ads without slowing down.

It could be that my baseline was the Chrome rendering, so any discrepancy was classified as "it's broken".

I have encountered a couple of (financial, natch) sites that insist on a Chromium-based browser in order to do vital operations like download statements. Switching browsers for those few exceptions is annoying, but not a deal-breaker (for me).

- https://ibb.co/gJQhTbK

- https://ibb.co/bJZ7JVR

I get the same behavior for the people queries like "Barack Obama". (Android 14, Pixel 4a)

Install the Google Search Fixer from the Firefox add on store and it looks exactly the same.

edit: turns out I have the search fixer add-on that is mentioned in a sibling comment installed.

As they say, acceptance is the first step to recovery.

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity

Jan 3 2021 210,085,100

Jan 1 2023 193,199,300

Dec 17 2023 185,599,100

That's an interesting angle. I suppose we could compare against Mozilla's stats on download numbers and telemetry? Though between users downloading from distro mirrors and disabling telemetry (I suspect Firefox users are far more likely to be privacy conscious and/or Linux users) those will also be fuzzy.

It's going slowly down - something that is unlikely to improve unless Firefox gets better distribution channels, especially on mobile. Giving up on FirefoxOS cut them from having the "default" browser anywhere.

They are working on a gecko-based iOS browser since the UE is likely to mandate browser diversity, so maybe that will improve things a bit - though this will only make the situation on iOS on par with Android where Firefox is not doing well market share wise.

    | Year | Firefox | Chrome | Other |
    | 2020 |     20% |    75% |    5% |
    | 2021 |     19% |    75% |    6% |
    | 2022 |     18% |    75% |    7% |