The final suicide of "Firefox"

[Bleipriester]

So Firefox turned into a privacy violating advertising tool with no actual point whatsoever. What Google tried to implement in Chrome ("Privacy Sandbox") and then abandoned because of the negative feedback is now introduced in Firefox under the shiny name of "Privacy Preserving Attribution" (PPA).
It sends your data to the advertising industry. While Mozilla assures that users´ activities are not visible to anyone, including Mozilla itself, those who use Firefox for privacy reasons will probably look out for another browser.

In FF 128, the feature is enabled by default, not (yet) mentioned in the privacy policy and Mozilla does not specify what data they collect. And users get apparently not informed about the new "feature".

Firefox Data Collection Feature Sparks Privacy Concerns

A nonprofit files a complaint against Mozilla for adding a post-cookie web tracking feature.

www.pcmag.com

Browser market share 2012 - 2024 shows that Firefox already has a insignificantly low share and this will further add to the plight.

Internet browser market share 2012-2024 | Statista

As of August 2024, the Google Chrome browser accounted for over 65 percent of the global market for internet browsers.

www.statista.com

Good bye, Firefox. And it is clear that we need to get rid of personalized ads.

 

[jotathought]

People still use Firefox? Wow .. that was so 20 years ago.

 

[Captain Caveman]

People still use Firefox? Wow .. that was so 20 years ago.

What's the go to browser / search engines etc.. these days

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Firefox lost it's way years ago.
When they became everything they were trying not to be.
Firefox set out to be a better browser. The biggest was the multi-tabs. Prior to this, if you wanted to look at two websites - you had to open another window.
Opera was actually the first to do that.
Firefox also had less garbage running - so it took up considerable less memory than Explorer. Which, like me, was what drew most people to it. It was provenly faster.
Until it wasn't. It became the same behemoth memory hog as explorer.
I haven't used it in years

 

[Bleipriester]

Firefox lost it's way years ago.
When they became everything they were trying not to be.
Firefox set out to be a better browser. The biggest was the multi-tabs. Prior to this, if you wanted to look at two websites - you had to open another window.
Opera was actually the first to do that.
Firefox also had less garbage running - so it took up considerable less memory than Explorer. Which, like me, was what drew most people to it. It was provenly faster.
Until it wasn't. It became the same behemoth memory hog as explorer.
I haven't used it in years

The tab feature wasn´t important for me. Why would I mind whether the "tabs" are in the browser or in the task bar?
With IE9 I switched back to IE. It was clearly the best browser. Then I also used FF starting with 4. Mozilla could not do anything about Chrome´s rise but to copy it. And when they changed the way addons are implemented, that was the begin of their demise.

 

[BackAgain]

Very frustrating.