Wait A Minute....Google Funds Firefox???

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I’m sure you’ve all heard of Firefox just like you’ve also probably heard of Bing. But, who actually uses Firefox? Well, statistically speaking, Firefox has a 7.69% market share in the PC market which actually works out to 362 million users worldwide. This is likely surprising given that basically everyone and their mothers use Chrome or Safari. What’s even more surprising is that Firefox doesn’t come preinstalled like Microsoft Edge or Safari, so everyone who uses Firefox has gone out of their way to use it. Something that’s even more surprising than this is that Firefox is actually mostly funded by Google. In fact, $450 million out of the $500 million that Firefox pulled in last year was from Google. The official reasoning for this is that Google is paying Mozilla to make Google the default search engine on Firefox. But, if we take a closer look, it appears that this deal was built to protect Google from an antitrust perspective. This video explains the rise and appeal of Firefox and why Google is funding its competitor.

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Timestamps:
0:00 - Remember Firefox
2:07 - The Story Of Firefox
5:11 - Chrome Takeover
7:37 - The State Of Firefox
9:56 - Why Google Funds Firefox

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[whensonzhou]

Calling firefox a version of open source chrome will trigger a lot of the technical people who know the differences between firefox and chromium based browser.

[krishcshah]

Mozilla also supports extensive documentation for web development it costs a lot to support and host that kind of thing. Plus they provide all of this without ads. You don't know how much we appreciate it.

[Rednesswahn]

Many browsers now use chromium under the hood - Opera and Edge for example. Firefox has it's own engine. Letting Firefox die would also pretty much leave Google to make the web standards as they please, including anything ads and tracking.

[Psychopatz]

I'm kinda proud that I'm one of those 1% Firefox users in our country lol

[dr_tails]

Long time Firefox user (10+ years) and it's really 2 reasons why for me, the add-ons/customization and wanted a separate browser from Microsoft/Google

[NasTwice]

One thing that is rarely mentioned in the Explorer/Firefox era is Firefox had the best add-on library on the market. That's what drew me in initially.

[MaxwellDoesStuff]

The single greatest feature in Firefox is container tabs. Basically they let you create a “container” which has a whole separate set of cookies from your normal browser. In this container you can then sign into whatever services. Personally I use it for managing school and personal google accounts.

In my normal tabs I’m signed into all the services I use and then in the school container I have my school stuff. If they aren’t separated then you get a ton of issues where you’re just blocked from google services or signing in with the wrong account causing pain and annoyance.

[hrznn]

Tldr for those who dont have 12 minutes: Google funds Firefox so they can say "we have competition" and avoid lawsuits/fines/etc. Other than that, I have most browsers installed for different reasons. Unnecessary but cool. Instead of switching between accounts, I gave each browser a role/theme. Firefox (dev edition) is for development, github, codewars, things like that. But I do believe that 90% of the Firefox market share comes from Linux distros, because it's preinstalled and no one bothers to search how to install Chrome.

[apc]

Google: when you are so successful you need to finance competitors.

Great video, as always very informative and entertaining

[notyova]

Started using Firefox because it took less RAM and was faster for older computers. Firefox made the difference between having Youtube playing in the background and not due to Chrome's bandwidth. I would still use Firefox to this day if it had a slightly better design interface that Chrome offers.

[peterm.]

I'm definitely preferring Firefox over Chrome. Add-ons are more powerful in this ecosystem, I have way more control about how to access web pages - and what to filter out. Since I suffer from ADHD - avoiding distraction is very important to me. Ads are being removed where possible - and even after this, I prefer the reader mode to grasp texts.
Besides this I got rid of many strange updating and home-talking processes when using Firefox instead of Chrome...

[kh_trendy]

I worked for Netscape when they released the last version, which was just a skinned version of Firefox with some plugins baked into it. The original spell checking plugin for Firefox was written by a guy on the Netscape team, and so that became a feature in the last version of Netscape.

[RichardHoule]

Not only they funds Firefox, they also funds Safari. They pay billions per year to be the default search engine of Safari and Siri.

[jmtradacc]

Google keeps Firefox alive so they can say they have competition. Without Firefox Google will get a lot of headaches. 😂

[FlorianWendelborn]

I use Firefox Developer Edition since it has some of the best devtools out there. I use Firefox in general because it has a feature that no other browser has (AFAIK), Firefox Containers. They allow me to basically always be in private-browsing since every single tab I open is a completely unique session. However, they also allow me to say that specific websites (like YouTube) get a dedicated, persistent container. So I’m always logged-in on YouTube, but I’m never logged-in on other Google sites. I can simultaneously log-in to multiple accounts on the same site without any issues, just by opening them in a different container.

It’s honestly the most useful unique browser feature.

That being said, if Firefox wouldn’t exist anymore, I’d definitely NOT switch to Chrome. Google is an evil data hoarding company and should not be used when avoidable.

[joelarnold]

Firefox was nothing like a rebranded, open source version of Netscape. As you said yourself, it was rebuilt from the ground up.

I remember using it as early as 2005, and the reason it became popular was due to innovation (or a lack thereof by Microsoft). Firefox introduced major new features like tabbed browsing and addons (for things like ad blockers) which fixed a lot of the annoyances in Internet Explorer. It was also a lot more secure and crashed less often.

Most people never starting using it because of some ideological crusade against Microsoft. People used it because it was a superior product.

[kidades]

I've used firefox before chrome came out. When it did, I really had no reason to switch from a browser I was familiar with. And that is still the case now. Nothing related to privacy.

[akinaguda]

Mozilla also gave us the Rust programming language ❤🦀

[DanielDogeanu]

You are correct, I switched to Firefox because it's just a better browser than Chrome! And after the rewrite, it's also the fastest! The first thing that pushed me to switch from Chrome to Firefox was the rendering engine, which rendered fonts way better than Chrome. Fonts used to look really junky in Chrome, until they fixed it a few years back with the switch to the Blink rendering engine. But still, I stuck to Firefox, it's simply better and more privacy oriented!

[GarnWall]

Though Firefox has basically the same features as Chrome, the tab layout and overall navigation just feels better to me than Chrome. The main browser I use is Opera, they allow you to have multiple workspaces, and there's so many other small quality of life features that the other major browsers are lacking.