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The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance (www.zdnet.com)
submitted 8 months ago by ConstableJelly@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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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?

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[–] Zworf@beehaw.org 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The problem is, you can't donate to firefox. Only to the mozilla foundation which spends it on other stuff.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

theres a difference between the mozilla foundation - the non profit - and the mozilla corporation - the for profit.

[–] Zworf@beehaw.org 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Yes exactly, that's what I mean. Firefox is from the for-profit and you can't donate to that. I think they did that because of the google deal but it also means they locked themselves out of a sustainable donation model.

The non-profit is just running some BS side-projects now.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

firefox foundation is literally what you donate to when you donate to firefox.

[–] Zworf@beehaw.org 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

No, it's the Mozilla foundation: https://donate.mozilla.org/en-US/ . Not the firefox foundation.

They do a lot of stuff but Firefox is not part of that, that's under the corporation: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/what-we-do/

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[–] markkdark@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

Yes, to mozzila foundation. Thanx