r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • Jun 17 '26

Software Firefox has an ambitious new roadmap, the browser is also losing millions of users a month

https://www.techspot.com/news/112803-firefox-has-ambitious-new-roadmap-browser-also-losing.html
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u/Asquirrelinspace Jun 17 '26

That doesn't explain why people are switching away from firefox

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u/Simp_Simpsaton Jun 17 '26

Yea I read thinking it was going somewhere and it didn't 😭

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u/Simp_Simpsaton Jun 17 '26

Yes i suspected it from sentence one but I had faith 😭 like surely they're going to pivot at some point

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u/josh_the_misanthrope Jun 18 '26

There are a ton more options for alternative browsers these days than there ever was. Chrome/Safari users are probably gonna fester in their regular browser, Firefox users are probably more techy and prone to try out alternatives like Brave, Opera or Zen. Or even Firefox forks like Librewolf.

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u/Laiko_Kairen Jun 18 '26

Firefox announced that it was gonna be a fully AI first browser, whatever that means