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No one is using Firefox on mobile so it’s good for you, but not web on the whole.

Also while an independent entity having a larger presence is better than Apple at least Apple having a large market share makes Google need to consider what happens in safari before they do something particularly shady with web standards

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I use Firefox on Android, it works great.

Desktop-based extensions integrate pretty seamlessly, which I love

You are unfortunately part of the "no one" segment, that half a percent of mobile browser users internationally / across platforms - even less than Firefox's desktop share

You have to start somewhere

That's not where they're starting, that's where they've fallen to...

They've grown from 0.5% to 0.85% over three years[1]. I don't see how they're going to increase beyond that.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/272664/market-share-held...

I know, but if you don't believe it's the start of new growth there's no point even trying :)

Today is the first day of the rest of your life :)

> No one is using Firefox on mobile

I am No one, we are legion. Have been using FF on mobile since it became viable, many years ago. I just like my ads blocked and my data mine, that's why.

Right? Mobile web browsing is enough of a shitshow without ads cluttering everything; browsing on a phone without uBlock Origin sounds absolutely horrific.

Count me among the ones using FF Mobile. I can't imagine browsing the mobile web without an ad-blocker, and I'm happy to fight back against the browser duopoloy.

I love Firefox for Android. It works great. It works even better than the desktop version :D

I'm the opposite. I hate it, but I use it because of ublock origin. I'm of the opinion that all mobile browsers are awful. Because of the lack either privacy, security, or UX. Can't have them all. If I could, I'd continue to use Firefox for Android 68. It had a much better UX including a tablet mode. Now the most recent version's UX is full of slow ui animations, lack of features, customization, etc. At least it has privacy and security.

I do :) And I think it is good and you could also use addons (like uBo) which is great. More should use it on mobile.

No, supporting Firefox is good for the whole...how do you not understand that?

If you do something that benefits Firefox, but has an outsized benefit for Firefox' competitors (or rather, anti-Firefox hegemony) and the net effect is overall worse for Firefox, then that thing that benefited Firefox was not good.

It's likely cost Firefox 100's of millions per year. That's net worse for firefox.

Also Mozilla is fighting this as well, they wouldn't unless they thought it was in their interest.

As the others, I use it too exclusively. It's a great mobile browser now.

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