It just sat there at the top of my screen and I clicked on it when I needed to. Again, I didn't used to be "aware" of the home icon at all. I'm also aware that they've hollowed out the home icon to the point where it is difficult to target with the mouse, because it doesn't look like a solid object. They've taken something that used to be handled by unthinking eye-hand coordination and pushed it up to the cognitive levels of my brain, where it competes for my attention with what I'm actually trying to do (read content on the web). Now I have to go searching for them, and there is this nagging insecurity as to whether I've got the right one (especially when I'm closing a tab, which is my most common use case). I just clicked on them when I needed them. Separating the tabs from the pages is major lossage. The people designing the FireFox UI manifestly do not. People who know something about human factors and GUI design. I need those people to be, like, UI designers. July 3, 2008: Firefox Breaks 8 Million, Gets Into Guinnessĭoes it really matter to you who the people who make your browser are like? September 11, 2007: Firefox Hits 400 Million Downloads October 19, 2005: Firefox Tops 100 Million Downloads July 29, 2005: Firefox Downloads Reach 75 Million September 19, 2004: 1 Million Firefoxes in 4 Daysĭecember 12, 2004: Firefox Reaches 10 Million Downloadsįebruary 17, 2005: Firefox Breaks 25 Million DownloadsĪpril 26, 2005: Firefox nears 50 Million Downloads Quite the irony, eh? Just for fun, here's a timeline of our stories reporting on Firefox's download milestones from the mid-2000s: Especially when Firefox manages to introduce some industry-first privacy practices. Considering 2021 is the year when privacy-focused tools saw a big boost in their userbase, Mozilla's Firefox is looking at a constant decline. So, that makes it a whopping ~46 million decline in the userbase. And, it seems to have declined to 198 million at the end of Q2 2021. And surprisingly, the original source for this information is Firefox's Public Data Report.Īs per the official stats, the reported number of active (monthly) users was about 244 million at the end of 2018. I came across a Reddit thread by u/nixcraft, which highlighted more details on the decline in the userbase of Firefox since 2018. However, even with all benefits as one of the best web browsers around, it is losing its grip for the past few years. It has been the default choice for Linux users and privacy-conscious users across every platform. An anonymous reader quotes a report from It's FOSS, written by Ankush Das: Mozilla's Firefox is the only popular alternative to Chromium-based browsers.
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