At this point, even Windows itself includes antimalware software in the form of Windows Defender. Browsers should take note.
Firefox is in fact better in terms of privacy than rivals with higher market share, the home page of firefox addons store has uBlock Origin with "Recommended" label placed by Mozilla team.
It is important to recognize that the web is also used by grandma and grandpa who won't master any tech more recent than fax and installing uBlock origin by default will harm FF market share even more as usability will be impacted.
Safari works around that nicely - if you refresh a page it prompts you whether you want to reduce privacy protections (assuming you are refreshing because of something broken). Either way, the functionality can always be optional so people who are impacted can disable blocking.
> will harm FF market share even more as usability will be impacted.
The only people who currently use FF are those who also use uBlock Origin - if you don't there is really no point using it compared to Chrome.
Firefox marketshare will improve because there will finally be an actual selling point for it.
They have ignored user requests every iteration.
Check the play store you can see their score is gamed. Most reviews are 1-3 stars and all have the same complaints for years.
It's been a steady downward trend since google started financing them to have someone to point at and say 'see we have competition, no monopoly here!'.
They removed almost all addons and are barley (like 10+ years later!) bringing some of them back.
Pocket spam. Collections. The list is ridiculous and getting to Google levels bad.
I especially love the part where she laid off hella employees and gave herself a 1/5 raise.
I would say proof that Firefox got objectively better is https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/releases/
The fact that Firefox usability and perfromance is improving, better addons support for android, unique useful features like containers and easy to configure network proxy/DoH/web protection levels, etc.. is already a big improvment.
How do people expect the market share to grow if the user isn't #1 priority.
