They’re not even my favourite and for a number of good reasons. To be informed about new articles on I Programmer, sign up for our weekly newsletter, subscribe to the RSS feed and follow us on Twitter, Facebook or Linkedin.It’s no big secret that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and it’s closely related cousin, Edge, are not the world’s favourite browsers. This could well be the start of the end for Firefox as it become increasingly acceptable to exclude is simply because the "big boys" do.įirefox Public Data Report Related ArticlesĮdge Overtakes Safari To Be Second Browserįirefox Use Slumps 85% Executive Pay Soars 400%
After all, why go to the trouble of extending testing to Firefox when the other browsers are all using the same layout engine. In addition, several devs reported that the they no longer include Firefox by default among the browsers they target and only do so if a customer specifically requests it.īack in 2018 when Microsoft decided to use Chromium for Edge, I Programmer's editor Mike James predicted that this would only serve to consolidate its domination of the browser market and it is perhaps surprising that it has taken this long for tangible evidence to emerge. > The following desktop browsers are supported on this site: Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Safari (macOS only). I found the same thing when I went to renew my US passport on The advice, or rather the plea, from both Hacker News and Reddit is not to abandon Firefox - but on the other hand there is also mounting evidence that MBNA isn't the only company writing Firefox off. So which should you change - your browser or your credit card company.
it transpires, is optional!) the amount of data you can harvest is reduced It saves having to test how and upgrades or bug fixes work on Firefox and, as Edge is now based on the same engine as Chrome and Chrome and Safari have a lot in common under the hood, developers' workload is streamlined.Īnother reason for discriminating against Firefox might be its insistence on privacy - if a website respects a visitor's request not to be tracked (and this. There has been much speculation as to why MBNA is doing this and the consensus appears to be laziness. Of course this might not work if the site decides to use a more sophisticated way to discover which browser is connecting. On the r/Firefox sub-Reddit which had already reported this news it was suggested that those affected should try spoofing the browser agent user string, substituting "chrome" for "firefox" and keep using Firefox. The Firefox user alert that appeared on the online account log-on page last month reads:Īfter August 1, you must use Chrome, Edge or Safaril to access MBNA online banking.
Well it's rather worse than lack of support. To add insult to injury Hacker News now highlights the fact that MBNA a major credit card company no longer supports Firefox: The highest point in the chart is 253,877,800 clients on Januand the figures for the consecutive high summer dates are: The chart shows seasonal dips corresponding to public holidays and the summer slowdown - and the decline at the far right of the chart going from 211,661,600 clients on June 6 to 192,419,600 on August 1 is consistent with this seasonal pattern. Now it is Firefox's own data that shows how the number of Monthly Active Users (MAU), which measures the number of Firefox Desktop clients active in the past 28 days, has varied since the start of 2019. Back in May, when we ran the news that Edge had overtaken Safari to be second most widely used browser it was clear from the Statcounter graph that Firefox's share of the desktop browser market share had experienced a recent fall.
The story only dropped off our radar in late 2020 when stopped collecting and publishing the NetMarketShare data about browser usage. Now the Canadian Credit Card company MBNA no longer lets its card holders log in to their accounts from Firefox - they are restricted to Chrome, Edge and Safari.įirefox losing market share is something we used to report on a regular basis. Over the past few weeks Firefox has seen a steeper than usual decline in Monthly Active Users.
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