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Good. They've lost market share continuously for fifteen years.

In 2009 they had a 30% market share.

Now they have a 5-6% market share.

4/5ths of their market share, gone.



2.8% in July '24, Linux has a higher desktop market share than Firefox has browser share.


The number of internet users have also gone up 300% over that time period, so on absolute terms they still have a sizeable user base.. but yes. They need to figure out how to increase market share.


They are even losing users in absolute terms: check https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity




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