Switch to Firefox

For 2024, give yourself a gift and use only “pure” Browser remaining web browser, Firefox. According to recent posts, the Firefox's market share is declining and this must not be allowed to happen.

There are two main reasons why change is important.

1. Privacy

Firefox is the only major browser not made by a company that makes a profit money from advertising and/or selling your personal information data.

There has been a lot of talk about websites that track users using cookies, fingerprinting and other nasty technologies that harm your privacy. But proprietary browsers from Google, Apple and Microsoft don't even need these tricks.

We should start using browsers that are independent, and right now that means Firefox.

2. Monopoly of browser engines

Wikipedia states as "active" four browser engines. Browsers are the pieces of kit that take the code of a web page and display it on your screen.

Ideally, they conform to the official W3C standards and display all elements as described. If this is the case, web developers can easily write websites that work in all browsers. No need for vendor lock-in or proprietary lock-in nonsense just open standards that just work.

In economics, vendor lock-in, also known as proprietary lock-in, makes a customer dependent on one supplier for products, and unable to use another supplier without significant switching costs.
The use of open standards and alternatives makes systems tolerant of change. Vendor lock-in does the opposite: it makes switching from one solution to another difficult.
Lock-in costs that create barriers to entry can lead to antitrust action against a monopoly.

It has been done before

In the early 2000s, Internet Explorer had a huge market share (95%). This meant that many websites were developed just for use with IE. They were using experimental features supported by IE, instead of stuff from the official HTML standard. It was a very bad situation, which hindered the development of the World Wide Web.

Today, Chrome, Safari, and Edge use variants of the closely coupled engines web kit and Blink.
If we want to avoid another browser engine monopoly, we need to support Firefox and its “Gecko” engine.