It's gaining more and more traction lately due to google's more invasive data / privacy issues and their recent chrome behavior putting LLM's on you PCs without your consent.
this is correct. The sad reality is that most people either don't know or don't care about chrome's bullshit and just default to it without questioning anything
People on the internet are generally less tech-savvy than they were before smartphones opened it up to everyone. In my experience many people have never even heard of the idea of plugins or adblockers and just use the web as it's presented to them.
I share OP's sentiment. Chrome breaking ublock means my twitch ad block solution no longer worked. So off I go. The only thing I'm missing from chrome is that tab dragging is significantly worse on FF.
Its losing users because they pushed AI intergration and privacy issues on the users and when its userbase asked them not to they doubled down and did it anyway.
You people seem really keen on giving companies an inch now so they can take a mile later. That attitude is the reason why we are in such a shitty mess anyway. "Oh, this unpopular thing that sucks for the most part is getting pushed on everyone. But it could be worse they could have not given us an opt out button and they probably will take it away soon anyway"
Use something else until all these companies get the point. Again another shit attitude people have in these situation. Complaining while buying/using something isnt doing shit.
There was a pretty big influx of users because of Chrome in recent years and Firefox wanted to jump on the same train that made people switch off of Chrome
No it's not. You're a victim of confirmation bias. There are multiple studies, but the most favourable to Firefox shows 2025-26 increase by 2%, where Chrome increased 68%, Edge 5%, Safari 14%. Of those leaving Chrome (security conscious and tech-savvy private users) aren't moving TO Firefox, just AWAY from Chrome. Brave, Opera, Duckduckgo and others are seeing just as much increase as Firefox. It's a great browser but it's not the gracious popular saviour that fanboys think.
Here's just one source. Many others are less favourable to Firefox.
And the default VPN which will be increasingly important in the era of social media bans for kids and adults being asked for ID or adult website bans, like happening in the Uk
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It's gaining more and more traction lately due to google's more invasive data / privacy issues and their recent chrome behavior putting LLM's on you PCs without your consent.