The test showed that new versions of Firefox, like Version 55 and 56, have shown improvements in speed and memory usage. Thus being an aid to the users who work on multiple tabs simultaneously.
From Ralph https://fossbytes.com/firefox-55-1500-tabs-15-seconds/
ADDED https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/54.0.1/releasenotes/
Too bad Chrome has crushed FF into oblivion.
Chrome 45.1%
Safari 26.9%
Internet Explorer 14.3%
Firefox 6.5%
https://analytics.usa.gov/
Shots fired:
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FF at 6.5%? wow, I didn't realize it had dropped that far.
I thought surly the data must be skewed on US government sites. Statcounter data - less than 6% market share.
>I didn't realize it had dropped that far.
>I thought
Same. Same. The w3schools site was the highest FF percentage I could find at 13.3%
https://www.w3schools.com/Browsers/default.asp
We see FF mentioned so often on the tech news side, like you, I was kinda shocked. But out in the bricks it's just barely a blip on the radar.
Thought I posted about this a month or two ago.
I was going through some logs and thought something was wrong. Then I looked at statcounter, Wikipedia stats, etc and realized, nope, my results were typical. Firefox is all but dead
Check your logs. I bet you will all see the same thing
And a mere six years ago, LM posted this
http://th3core.com/talk/hardware-technology/chrome-overtakes-firefox/
Interesting read...
https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-ceo-chris-beard-says-firefox-57-browser-is-a-big-bang/
Basically, they missed the boat on mobile.
Quote from: Drastic on August 06, 2017, 02:38:25 PM
Basically, they missed the boat on mobile.
without owning the underlying OS, it was hard not to miss the boat, as Apple & Google push their own stuff as defaults.
I remember Apple Maps giving me really bad directions in San Francisco (illegal left turns, doing 4 straight left turns, crap like that) and yet just by placing themselves as default that is what most people use.
I don't see how Mozilla wins by paying for distribution when they'll end up being a reseller of a reseller of a reseller (Bing ad revenue shared with Yahoo shared with Mozilla shared with carrier or device maker) when compared against Google's default bundling & superior payout ability due to having better ad targeting from more scale & the direct relationship with advertisers.
Google was willing to lose $762 million to win the AOL search deal back in the day. No way they allow Mozilla to outbid them for default browser share on mobile.
Google let Yahoo win the Mozilla search deal in part because Yahoo vastly overpaid for it. Search revenues ex-TAC have been declining at Yahoo.
Interesting. I love my FF and being an old paraniod SEO, I can't foce myself on Chrome.
>FF at 6.5%
Wow.
I love Firefox. I refuse to use Chrome. It slowed down my system by pinging the mother ship every minute on the minute.