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Or what do you use them for? Isn't it now quite easy for websites to track outside of just cookies?

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Firefox

Firefox is overwhelmingly a desktop browser.

  • Mobile Usage (as a percentage of its total user base): While exact figures for "percentage of Firefox's own users" are less commonly published directly, we can infer from its very low global mobile market share (around 0.5-1.5%) and its higher desktop market share (around 5-7%) that a very small minority of Firefox users are on mobile devices. It's likely in the range of less than 10-15%, and possibly even lower. Its strength and history are firmly rooted in desktop Browse.

Google Chrome

Chrome is dominant on both platforms, but mobile contributes a larger share to its overall user base.

  • Mobile Usage (as a percentage of its total user base): The data consistently shows that Chrome's mobile usage (smartphones and tablets combined) makes up a significant majority of its total user base. Given that mobile internet traffic is 60%+ of overall traffic, and Chrome commands a large share of both mobile and desktop, it's clear that well over half of Chrome's users are on mobile devices. Estimates suggest this figure is around 60-70% of its total users are on mobile (primarily smartphones).

Apple Safari

Safari's user base is heavily, almost exclusively, mobile.

  • Mobile Usage (as a percentage of its total user base): This is where Safari stands out. Because Safari is the default browser on iPhones and iPads (iOS and iPadOS), its user base is overwhelmingly mobile. Its global mobile market share is around 20-23%, while its global desktop market share is only 7-9%. This indicates that a very large majority, likely 75-85% or even higher, of Safari's total users are on mobile devices (iPhones and iPads).

Others

It's worth adding that an estimated 20-40% of Brave's user base is mobile and 20-30% of Vivaldi's.

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#IronFox v140.0.4 has been released, and the Firefox-based web browser for Android now officially supports UnifiedPush 🎉

#IronFox #Firefox #Android #UnifiedPush

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June’s #Tumbleweed update brings major feature & under-the-hood improvements! Highlights include #KDE Plasma 6.4, Frameworks 6.15, Gear 25.04.2, GCC 15, Mesa 25.1.3 & #PipeWire 1.4.6. Vital security patches for #Firefox, Python, Salt & more. #opensource #openSUSE #Linux https://news.opensuse.org/2025/07/03/tw-monthly-update-june/

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Time-saving software and hardware expertise that helped 500MM+ PC users. Guiding you with how-to advice, news and tips to upgrade your tech life.

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Dozens of fake wallet add-ons flood #Firefox store to drain #crypto

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dozens-of-fake-wallet-add-ons-flood-firefox-store-to-drain-crypto/

#cybersecurity #Coinbase #MetaMask #TrustWallet #Exodus #Phantom #OKX #Keplr #MyMonero

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#Linux Weekly Roundup for June 29th, 2025: #Firefox 140 ESR, first look at #GIMP 3.2, #IPFire gets #WireGuard support, #KDE Plasma 6.4's first point release, Firefox 141 to use less memory on Linux, #qBittorrent 5.1.1, #Clonezilla Live 3.2.2-15, #PipeWire 1.4.6, #GStreamer 1.26.3, and more https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-june-29th-2025

#OpenSource #FOSS

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Another unnecessary macOS global keyboard shortcut change inspired a bad change in Firefox.

Apple hijacked ⌃↩ to open a context menu. Firefox used that to normalize input text to a .com URL.

⌘↩ in the address bar used to open a new tab. Firefox thought adding .com was more useful than opening a new tab, so moved new tab to ⌥↩, inconsistent with ⌘ + click opening a link in a new tab.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1949999&amp%3Bref=activitypub

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/136.0/releasenotes/?ref=activitypub

https://lifehacker.com/tech/right-click-with-your-keyboard-in-mac-os-sequoia?ref=activitypub

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255829818?sortBy=rank&amp%3Bref=activitypub

#Firefox

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Mozilla officially refuse to support UnifiedPush, which was incredibly exciting and something I was eager to see land.

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#Firefox 141 Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing, Promises to Use Less Memory on #Linux Systems https://9to5linux.com/firefox-141-promises-to-use-less-memory-on-linux-systems-beta-out-now

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware

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TL;DR: Firefox has a new feature to let you pin additional tabs when you have an existing pinned tab in the window.

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Your data, your rules: #Firefox’s #privacy-first #AI features you can trust

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-ai/ai-browser-features/

#FOSS

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