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> Mobile browsing numbers are bleak: Firefox barely exists on phones, with a market share of less than half a percent. This is baffling given that mobile Firefox has a rare feature for a mobile browser: it's able to install extensions and so can block ads.

This is true, and indeed very strange. I use FF on mobile and it works perfectly. So Mozilla's problems aren't only technical, there's also a question of market awareness.

That said, there are also technical problems. Some bugs on the desktop linger on for years and are never fixed.

As described in the article, Mozilla spent a lot of energy into side projects that never went anywhere and were only loosely related to the browser.

This is all, obviously, a management problem.

parent bambax 6 years ago

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