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what was the driver of this growth?

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To clarify for the sibling comments - Firefox active users hasn't grown.

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity

Revenue has grown, though. While I worked there, it fluctuated mostly based on how well Google was able to monetize ad clicks. Mozilla is selling more of their own ads since I left, and that seems to be paying off.

Manifest v3 is the only thing I can think of that spawned a lot of “I’m switching to Firefox” online conversations over the last year.

But that’s in the nerdiest, most niche programming circles, so I can’t believe its impact is actually measurable.

and yet, Firefox is switching to Manifest v3, too, just on a more delayed timeline than Chrome.

They're not getting rid of the old blocking API, though.

Yet.

When Google makes it contingent on their annual "donation", they will.

That donation may well be just as important for google than it is to mozilla. They are much better off without a huge lawsuit and paying out “pennies” each year.

Yes, it's an important donation - for stifling competition. There is more than one way to monopolize the market.

I worked there as an engineer for just under 9 years. Google does not give Mozilla engineering its marching orders.

I find ff "total cookie protection" amazing.

First time I read about it I thought "how on earth has this not been the standard way to handle cookies since browsers were invented?"

crosses fingers Hopefully people escaping Chrome monoculture and users fleeing the looming ad blocking nerfing. Mozilla seems to fit the user agent role better.

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