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Each to their own. I'm a happy Firefox user and will continue to be on all my devices (including my phone which I'm writing this now with)

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I am too, but I have telemetry disabled since their stunt with the Mr Robot extension they installed remotely for everyone [1]. I also run uBlock on both desktop and mobile. I am one of the 50M users counted as lost?

[1]: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/mozilla-back...

>Mr Robot extension they installed remotely for everyone

Absolute bullshit. The Looking Glass extensions was installed through their SHIELD experiments program, only for people who had enabled it, and to a very small proportion of those, too. Additionally, it did not capture any data, as creepy as it was.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/retrospective-l...

It is a ridiculous breach of trust to abuse an engineering test platform to push advertising software directly onto a users computer without consent.

It's certainly enough to turn off those optional settings, don't you think? But fair enough, I didn't phrase this right.

I'm wondering how they count users, and whether installations with telemetry disabled are counted at all.

I got it and I absolutely never willingly signed up for it and I am (and was at that time too) a very competent user.

I have been trying to switch to Firefox since long but have never been able to completely switch. There have always been some problems that send me away.

On my phone (Android), Firefox is quite good except a few UX issues (that I don't mind too much) but the sync with my desktop has NEVER worked.

On the desktop, FF has always been slow - in booting, loading pages. The same with Edge and Chrome just work.

If I could get it to sync, and if the desktop version worked, I would never go back to Chromium.

I can imagine how frustrating it would feel as a Firefox dev reading reports like this and wondering wth is going wrong. Because I'm "just a user" and I've never seen FF being slow to start or loading pages.
Same with sync, I recently install Firefox on a new laptop. Clicked the sync button, logged in with my account and done. In 2-3 minutes all history and addons sync'd \o/ UX wise I really love that Firefox Android has the address bar on the bottom :D

Except some Google stuff like the GCP console.

EDIT: formatting

Same. I use it hours a day. I don't get it. There is something broken or misconfigured on these users machines, at least from FF's position. I use it on Linux, windows, mac, and mobile with no issues except when I've enabled so much adblock stuff that I have to start backing it off for that website :) (only if I really, really, really need the site)

I can feel that too. But I have tried to sync so many times, tried reinstalling, used a different account but it never worked.

Happily returned to firefox a couple years ago when they jumped ahead in speed and have been happy to stick around. I experience absolutely no bugs nor compatibility problems on desktop and mobile is A-OK as well.

Me too. Firefox on both my Windows and GNU/Linux laptops. Firefox Focus in my phone - I use a phone browser only for reading and Focus works perfectly for that use case.

Same. The only device I don't use it on is the Chromebook - ChromeOS doesn't seem to be Firefox' target market.

If only. Google's monopoly will make Firefox harder and harder to use.

switched full time and i'm a hppay camper myself. haven't used firefox since chrome 2 came out.

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