2024 Web Stats: GNU/Linux (on Desktops/Laptops) Now Has Higher Market Share Than Mozilla Firefox, ChromeOS is Getting There Too
Mozilla's suicide mission
THE leadership at Mozilla - not what's left of engineers who can actually code - is a very sad joke. This week all they have to show in their blog is some "AI" name-dropping (zero substance!) and upselling of "security" (Monitor). Their VPN isn't safe and barely supports anything other than Microsoft and Apple.
This isn't the Mozilla of 20 years ago!
It is not exactly shocking that Mozilla is failing and Firefox keeps falling. Judging by these numbers ("Browser Market Share Worldwide"; see this ODF version) and OS snapshots ("Desktop Operating System Market Share Worldwide"), ChromeOS is at above 2% worldwide, and unlike Firefox it is not shrinking. Firefox will sooner or later fall below 2% "market share" and then official government sites will be under no legal obligation to be Firefox-compatible. It's worth noting that a Microsoft stronghold, the Philippines, is shifting away from Windows monoculture (ChromeOS now at 4% and GNU/Linux growing too). Almost nobody there bothers with Firefox. In Asia, Firefox is already well below 2%. Maybe they want something that works, not some shallow "virtue signalling" and encouragement of censorship.
So basically, they used to mock GNU/Linux, claiming it to be a barely-used niche OS, unlike "successful" Free software projects, such as Firefox. How times have changed. Chrome is of course proprietary or OSPS. It is not where we want to go.
The "F" in Firefox does not stand for Freedom (it contains proprietary blobs). The "F" stands for something Mozilla won't let you say. █