- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
The post describes
- Firefox market share 2.2%
- Firefox users not happy with current state
- 510 out of 593 mil revenue is from Google
- CEO pay increased though market share declining
The statistic of low Firefox use is based on accessing US government websites. Could it be that there is significantly LESS government site access by the population of users that prefer Firefox? As a corollary I recently read that game companies observed significantly HIGHER bug reporting from Linux users on Steam, not because there were more Linux-related bugs, but simply because that set of users were more likely to initiate bug reports. Of course Firefox is not Linux and Steam is not the world, but a statistic from a relatively narrow segment of the internet should not be assumed representative of the whole.
They list Firefox with 7.61% on desktops
3.36% on all platforms.
17.93% on desktops in Germany
I bet many Firefox Users block those trackers.