Article seems pretty flawed. Relevance is a vague metric, and the author relies pretty heavily on data related to government site visitation, which seems subject to bias toward certain types of users.
Market share is likely still incredibly low, but Firefox’s relevance should be spiking right now due to Google’s shenanigans with Chromium. The fact that like 90% of revenue for its for-profit wing is from Google is still troubling.
Any alternative views out there?
I only use FF in Linux, I tried on Android but it’s somewhat bad 😔
Opposite of my experience, FF + uBlock Origin made browsing the web on my phone enjoyable because the filtering of ads makes page layouts readable.
I use Firefox on all my devices and couldn’t be happier with it. I especially love how sync works: there’s options to both pull tabs from other devices, and push to them. Quite frequently I’d be just browsing on my phone and send a tab over to my laptop to deal with/read/act on when I’m sitting down at a bigger screen.
Same! I believe that others struggle with it but I can’t wrap my head around why their experience is so different from my own.
Working just fine for me…
I’ve found the reason it’s not great on mobile is because even if you tell your android phone to use Firefox as default it simply ignores it and uses chrome anyways
Edit: I was able to get it to work properly as my default browser but I had to disable chrome in the app settings. Now it’s great
Just fully remove chrome. I do not even have chrome on my phone. Firefox works fine on mobile. Have no idea why people think it does not.
You can disable chrome in it’s app settings!
Disable chrome. Problem solved.
What phone do you use that you experience this?
be sure to actually launch firefox and don’t use the google ‘app’ either.
Can’t confirm. My default browser and web view are Firefox on both Sony and Samsung devices.
Also bad on iOS. I use FF on my Linux laptop, but I use Safari on my phone because FF doesn’t have many features. I understand this is the fault of the iOS ecosystem, not FF, I am merely presenting the reality of the situation because this further skews data.