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Firefox will get overhaul in bid to get you interested again
The Firefox browser has had a rough go in the last few years. The number of people using Mozilla's browser has dwindled as the world has embraced Google's Chrome and started using phones where Firefox has a small presence. In the last two years, Firefox's worldwide market share has dropped from 13 percent to 8 percent, according to analytics firm StatCounter. The next update to Firefox, however, represents the first step in Mozilla's long-term plan to get you using its web browser once again. It hopes to rekindle the interest and influence it claimed a decade ago by revamping its...
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Over the past 12 years I've gone from Firefox as my primary browser in 2004 to deciding firefox got too bogged down and switching to Opera in 06/07 to thinking Opera was too basic and switching back to Firefox in 08 to Chrome as soon as it came out of beta in 09. I slowly phased out Firefox until when in approx 2014 I didn't even have it installed on my computer. Last year I got tired of chrome killing my battery and making my computer hot and eating up ALL THE RAM, so I've been phasing out Chrome and using Firefox as my primary browser since last year.
I've been quite happily using Firefox as my main browser anyway, but this is still great news.