Mozilla has posted not one, not two, but four articles and videos on the new look Firefox, as well as the release notes for developers. In this overall context it is no surprise that Mozilla hopes has embarked on a redesign, which is now available in Firefox 89. The decline is a concern, then, not only for Mozilla but also for standards advocates. Tor users, beware: 'Scheme flooding' technique may be used to deanonymize you.Icarus moment: Mozilla Thunderbird was saving OpenPGP keys in plaintext after encryption snafu.Big changes for devs: Chrome 91 lands with WebAssembly SIMD, JSON modules, clipboard file support.Firefox to adopt Chrome's new approach to extensions – sans the part that threatens ad blockers.Statcounter tells a similar story, reporting a 3.59 per cent share for Firefox, down from 4.21 per cent a year ago. Despite numerous updates, Mozilla's browser has declined from 6.1 per cent share a year ago. Today, Chrome is at 65.3 per cent, Safari second at 16.7 per cent, IE and Edge has 5.7 per cent, and Firefox has just 4.1 per cent share. In April 2012, the three were almost on a par, though Chrome (26.8 per cent) had overtaken Firefox (25 per cent). By April 2010, IE was down to 48.6 per cent, Firefox up to 32.7 per cent, and Google's newer Chrome was starting to make an impact, at 8.3 per cent. In April 2008, Microsoft enjoyed a 63 per cent market share with Internet Explorer, and with Firefox performing strongly behind it at 29.3 per cent.
The existence of multiple independent implementations is important for web standards, helping to prevent a single vendor from pushing through changes without consensus, and ensuring that the standards are coherent.Ī glance at a statistics site like W3Counter is telling. By contrast, most other browsers, including Chrome and Chromium, Edge, Brave, Opera, and Vivaldi use the Google-sponsored Blink engine, while Apple's Safari uses WebKit (from which Blink was forked).
Mozilla has released Firefox 89, proclaiming it a "fresh new Firefox," though it comes amid a relentless decline in market share.įirefox matters more than most web browsers, because it uses its own browser engine, called Quantum, and its own JavaScript engine, called SpiderMonkey.
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