Why Firefox is Losing Marketshare | How Did Internet Mafia Kills Mozilla 2022

Why Firefox is Losing Marketshare | How Did Internet Mafia Kills Mozilla 2022

It does not appear suitable for Firefox: Firefox has been losing momentum to Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Safari almost every month for the past three years. For most of 2009, the trend was upward as Firefox fought off Chrome and nibbled away at IE, but between 2010 and the present, Firefox has lost a third of its market share, falling from roughly 30% to around 20%.

There are two perspectives on this. To begin with, the total number of people using the internet is increasing; thus, while Firefox’s share has declined, the total number of people using Firefox has increased. The second point of view is that Firefox is losing popularity, whether you like it.

I adore Fox just as much as the next bearded geek, but the numbers speak for themselves: Chrome annihilates Firefox’s user base at a dizzying pace. Firefox took more than four years to wrest 20% of the market from Internet Explorer; Chrome took almost half that time and is on its way to 30% in just over three years. The graph for Internet Explorer is a little more challenging to decipher, but it has finally turned the curve and stopped losing market share.

ABOUT MOZILLA FIREFOX

NAME	MOZILLA FIREFOX
DEVELOPED BY	MOZILLA FOUNDATION IN 2002
DEVELOPED UNDER	PHOENIX COMMUNITY
RELEASE	NOV 2004
HIGHEST POPULARITY	2009

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WHY DID MOZILLA LOSE THE WAR?

Firefox’s losses are compounded because it is unlikely to earn any gains. Google has spent a lot of money advertising Chrome, but there’s no way marketing could have brought it nearly 30% of the internet’s two billion users.

People are shifting to Chrome due to word of mouth: Geeks and power users were the first to adopt it, and they’ve been putting it on their friends and family’s computers ever since. Microsoft is also utilizing a dollar bill tourniquet, and when Windows 8 tablets arrive with Internet Explorer 10 as the default browser, you can bet its market share will rise. Mozilla is bringing some fascinating new capabilities to Firefox, and Firefox for Android is a promising venture, but I don’t see anything that will change the tide.

Is this, however, indeed a problem? Firefox’s popularity stems entirely from the fact that it appealed to geeks and power users who were dissatisfied with Internet Explorer 6’s 95 percent market share. For the past five years, Microsoft has essentially stifled web innovation. Firefox was created with a single goal: to reinvigorate the internet.

It has been successful in this regard. The web has never been more fascinating, with three browsers fighting for domination. Within a few years of its release, Firefox had demonstrated the power of CSS and a powerful JavaScript engine. Firefox sparked the HTML5 revolution. Thanks to Firefox, metro-style Windows 8 apps may now be created in JavaScript. And, funnily enough, Chrome was born because of Firefox.

Suppose you used Chrome between 2008 and 2009. In that case, you might recall that nearly all its early adopters were frustrated Firefox users who were tired of the browser’s ever-increasing memory footprint and slow User experience. Since Chrome first came out, it had absolutely no functionality, but that didn’t matter when the only other options were a slow Internet Explorer or a bloated Firefox; Chrome was precisely what the people (and the internet!) needed.

Mozilla has spent the last year attempting to slim down, but it hasn’t resulted in a surge of consumers returning to the motherland. Instead, in the same manner, that Firefox ate into Internet Explorer, Chrome homed in on a single characteristic — speed — and has been riding it ever since.

FIREFOX VS CHROME

• Regarding portability and usability, we believe it’s fair to say Firefox and Chrome are neck and neck, with Chrome having a slight advantage in utility thanks to its extensive library of extensions and add-on functionality.
• However, when it comes to privacy, Firefox comes out on top thanks to our commitment to protecting our customers’ online data and providing free built-in features like password managers that notify you if your credentials are compromised in a data breach.
• There’s no reason you shouldn’t use both browsers—Firefox for when privacy is paramount and Chrome if you’re still invested in the Google ecosystem.
• However, as the number of intrusions into our data grows, Firefox may prove to be the best option in the long term for those of us who cherish our online privacy.

CONCLUSION

Firefox will gradually fade into a feared, revered veteran position, similar to an aged grandfather sitting in a rocking chair amid the World Wide Web with a loaded shotgun, providing Microsoft and Google continue to attack each other with their complete armament of cannon. It may even reach the point where Firefox must occasionally release some bizarre feature to remind everyone that it is still alive. Firefox may eventually disappear if Microsoft is serious about open web technology and Google is not vicious.

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