In Some Countries, Such as Thailand, Firefox is Already Measured at Less Than 2% (One Day Firefox Will Get Blocked, Not Only Lack Support)
Android (with Chrome integrated) is growing:
Firefox is not doing well. Its userbase or "market share" is falling.
To understand what this will mean to Firefox users (perhaps years from now) we must look at what happens already to those of us who use "lesser-known" (however perfectly fine) browsers.
So Firefox won't be supported in some countries; its users may be deemed negligible and urged to download Chrome (or something similar). I've meanwhile noticed that not just Firefox and its derivatives suffer a lot from Clownflare, which became increasingly notorious in recent months. It blocks many browsers.
For many years I've used Falkon and its predecessors, always by default. This has gone on for nearly a decade and it usually worked fine, but today I noticed that every page in the Columbia Journalism Review returns this:
So it looks like Columbia Journalism Review now blocks millions of people; "we don't know this browser... so BLOCK EVERYTHING! Just in case!"
Looking at the page source and HTTP/S headers, it seems clear that the Columbia Journalism Review outsourced to Clownflare. When did that happen and whose idea was this? Clearly not recognising it's a risk to the press...
Based on the above, Clownflare continues its "Jihad" to outright block perfectly OK browsers... because... well, no good reasons. The goal should be to change the Web so that Clownflare would not be used, not to encourage more sites to adopt this malware. Minutes ago we noticed that statcounter.com and gs.statcounter.com were both offline, according to Clownflare. Even Clownflare could not reach them and Clownflare does nothing to mitigate (like serving cached pages). statCounter offloaded everything to Clownflare; yet it hardly helped.
So why use Clownflare?
It blocks many legitimate visitors.
So what's the matter here? You see, as Firefox gets smaller more sites will not support it and eventually, even Clownflare (or sites that use it) will start blocking Firefox users, not just users of Pale Moon (or similar). At the moment LibreWolf pretends to be "Firefox" (to avoid discrimination), but it won't last long if Mozilla persists in suicidal ambitions. Clownflare or not, the Web is becoming more Firefox-hostile, in general.
Web consolidation around Chrom-isms will doom the Web as we know it. █