Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?
Here&#x27;s my perspective on this - Chrome has established itself as the baseline. The baseline is no longer the W3C standard, it&#x27;s Chrome due to all of the experimental future W3C spec items being in Chrome. Chrome leads the spec, and with its 70% market share developers allow it to.<p>Firefox will <i>always</i> be playing catchup because of this, regardless of their market share. This leaves three main reasons for using Firefox:<p>1.) decoupling from Google &#x2F; ad privacy<p>2.) promoting browser ecosystem health<p>3.) familiarity &#x2F; history of use<p>Unfortunately, these three items lead to a very narrow TAM, especially when talking purely about new users. The gap will continue to grow as sites that work in Chrome but don&#x27;t work in Firefox, despite the site using things not in the W3C spec, will be seen as Firefox issues by non-technical users. These users will eventually default to Chrome.