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

5 days ago by sanitation to c/technology

Mozilla is trying to innovate and bring new features to Firefox, but the browser continues to lose users. Despite these concerning market trends, the company is actively...

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spaghettiwestern 26 points 4 days ago

It seems a good part of Mozilla's problems keeping users are actually being caused by Google. Besides the constant incompatibilities introduced by Google there's this:

This is Firefox's CPU utilization when just looking at Google's search page in a private window since Google turned on AI by default. My laptop literally gets too hot to be used on my lap. The exact same search on Chrome takes less than 2% CPU. (Yes, I know about Duckduckgo.)

Recently disabling native AI features in Firefox significantly reduced CPU use, but a couple of days ago it shot up again only when on Google's search page.

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themachinestops 9 points 4 days ago

I know right, every time I use any google service Firefox goes ballistic.

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