LXer: Firefox fights back

LXer · 08-06-2017, 05:21 PM

Published at LXer:

a massive overhaul due November 14, is ready for battle. Its main rival is Google’s Chrome, which accounts for 54 percent of browser usage today as measured by webpage visits using PCs, tablets and phones. Apple’s Safari has 14 percent, while Firefox has 6 percent, according to analytics firm StatCounter. Chrome lured tens of thousands of us away from Firefox after it debuted in 2008.

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GazL · 08-06-2017, 07:52 PM

Why would I choose to run a web browser that has dropped support for the native sound api (ALSA) of my system and forcing me to use a problem ridden 3rd party sound routing daemon? IMO Mozilla have been making bad decision after bad decision of late, and I don't have much hope that will change any time soon.

Chrome didn't lure me away; Mozilla drove me away.

mralk3 · 08-06-2017, 08:16 PM

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Originally Posted by GazL

Chrome didn't lure me away; Mozilla drove me away.

Agree!

I keep Firefox installed but have been using Chromium more and more recently because everything just works.