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

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] 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 5 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I've had this issue on several Pixel devices - I most recently had this exact issue on my Pixel 6 Pro, but I think recent-ish Firefox updates resolved some of the issues.

In my case, Firefox would lockup, but I could easily switch to another app without an issue. I would have to kill the Firefox app to get it responsive again.

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