With its market share hitting a new low, can Firefox rise from the ashes or is this the end?

Article seems pretty flawed. Relevance is a vague metric, and the author relies pretty heavily on data related to government site visitation, which seems subject to bias toward certain types of users.

Market share is likely still incredibly low, but Firefox’s relevance should be spiking right now due to Google’s shenanigans with Chromium. The fact that like 90% of revenue for its for-profit wing is from Google is still troubling.

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What add-ons in particular made you make the change?

Not OP but the standard two ones: uBlock origin and NoScript. Added bonus is an addon to continue video view with screen off.

People constantly crying over the ads in their youtube app. Well i just watch in Firefox and if i want to watch an audiobook video to fall asleep to, i don’t even have to drain my battery.

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uBlock, Clean URLs, and “I still don’t care about cookies”

Are the must haves for me.

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Is the last one still useful if you enable the cookies filter under annoyances in uBlock?

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I didn’t know about that actually. I’ll try it out and remove cookies extension. Thanks!

Edit: Working well so far!

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Yeah, I’ve got a bunch of the annoyances filters active and don’t know if I could browse most websites without them at this point.

Bypass paywalls clean. It’s great for reading news articles under a paywall.

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