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How Mozilla lost the Internet (& what's next) (youtube.com)

submitted 1 week ago by dantheclamman to c/[email protected]

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Pretty interesting analysis from TechAltar about Mozilla usage and revenue trends, which aren't as dire as they're often made out to be, but how the search placement deal with Google is indeed endangered, which may be pushing them to their recent embrace of adtech as a new revenue source

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Mozilla lost the Internet because mobile became the most common way to go online, and Mozilla (at least on Android) had been an absolute dumpster fire for years. I tried it a few times, but it would just randomly freeze for a few seconds for no reason. But I could switch to another browser and keep going at the same moment when Firefox froze so it wasn't a phone issue.

[–] dantheclamman 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Are you on a lower specced device? I notice it can have high resource usage at times

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Been a few years since I bothered. But, no never was. It was used on a Nexus S, Nexus 5, Nexus 10, and a Samsung Tab S3. All when they were new devices.

The Tab S3 was the last attempt years ago, but after so many attempts and fails, I just moved on.

And if it had been a low spec device issue, the system would freeze, not the app only.

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