It currently has Total Cookie Protection which isolates cookies into specific websites to prevent cross site tracking. For example, Firefox has a lot of privacy features that are just disabled by default. These principles are listed on the Mozilla Manifesto, and they mostly go through how the Internet is now an integral part of life, and how the internet needs to remain open and accessible to anyone, and how things like security and privacy are a right and shouldn’t be treated as optional.Įven with all the issues we just went through, Firefox is a great browser, and has many features. It’s those principles that make me dream of a day that Mozilla will regain its market share of the late 2000’s. This is easy to disable but it makes Firefox feel more like Microsoft Edge out of the box than it does an open-source browser.īack to the Google partnership, the Google partnership is bad because it’s a conflict of their principles. Another way Firefox makes money is through Pocket, however Pocket for users is annoying because it fills up your new tab pages with recommended articles you probably don’t care about and sponsored posts.
The issue is 86% of Mozilla’s revenue comes from Google being the default search engine on Firefox, which isn’t good considering that Google is against everything Mozilla stands for. Despite layoffs in 2020 they have been growing their revenue. Their biggest source of funding is also from their biggest competitor. However, an issue that isn’t overblown and should be talked about more is Mozilla’s main source of funding. So, this doesn’t seem like it affected Firefox much, and the issue was overblown. 2% and then actually went back up another. However, looking at Firefox market share during June of 2021 when the redesign was added, Firefox’s market share only went down by. In fact, people hated it so much that people were making memes about it and this redesign is the logo redesign that sparked the oversimplified logo meme that was popular in February 2021. This sends every keystroke you type to Mozilla.Īnother more recent issue is that most people did not well receive Firefox’s recent redesign well. On top of that, Firefox currently has a feature called Firefox Suggest where it can suggest websites while you’re typing in the URL bar. It also pings Google to find your geolocation which is especially stupid because Mozilla has its own geolocation service that isn’t used in Firefox. For example, Firefox pings Google for safe browsing to make sure that the website you’re trying to visit is safe. The problem is, out of the box Firefox does collect some data. One huge issue is that Firefox brands itself on being privacy friendly, and not collecting data user data. Keeping that in mind, Firefox has been in a lot of hot water, which is causing it to lose its ground fast. So, Firefox is our last hope for a non-Chromium based browser if you aren’t running an Apple product.
This is a problem because we have one company, Google, controlling every web standard going into our browsers.
#FIREFOX NOW SENDS YOUR BAR KEYSTROKES ANDROID#
But, if we take out iPhones and include only Android based devices, Firefox (and its forks) are the only mobile browser that doesn’t use Chromium’s engine and it only has 0.5% market share. The non-Chromium based Safari does take up 25% of mobile market share when you include iPhones. It gets even worse when you include mobile web browsers. When this is done, Chromium based browsers make up more than 80% of the market share. Google’s dominance over browser market share gets even more scary when you include other Chromium based browsers such as Edge and Opera. They also have a huge incentive to get as much control of web standards as possible to increase their profits. That is 70% of the web is controlled by just one company, a company that makes money by selling your user data and pushing ads. If you look at the current desktop browser market share, Chrome takes up almost 70%. So, Firefox is our last hope for a non-Chromium based browser.
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