• Kushan@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    As much as I’m happy to criticise Mozilla and its leadership, this graph is misleading.

    Firefox is not the only thing Mozilla does, not should the market share of the browser be the sole metric the leadership is measured by.

    Overlay the revenue and profit (or whatever revenue minus expenses is called for a nonprofit), then decide if the CEO is overpaid.

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      1 day ago

      Also market share != number of users. The number of internet users worldwide in 2009 was about 1.7 billion, this year it is passing 5.5 billion, many of them with multiple devices.

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      23 hours ago

      The more important point where the graph is misleading.

      While their market share went down, that says nothing. The market exploded over that period.

      Total installs is the thing you want to graph.

      Or Monthly Active Users, which has been mostly flat or slightly declining since 2019, the oldest date that Firefox currently lists on their website. Because all sorts of graphs are publicly available on that site.

      I’m also certain that I can find data going back further.

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      1 day ago

      Every single anti-Mozilla post OP has posted recently (I’ve seen 4 of them just today in my feed) is extremely misleading. Strange pattern…

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      1 day ago

      Is Mozilla making significant revenue from sources other than the search engine setting in Firefox?