Techrights

British Web Developers Can Probably Ignore Firefox Users (Based on US Standards)

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 22, 2025

Mozilla has managed to piss off enough people

Standards or Federal rules/guidelines in the US say that as long as a Web browser has over 2% of the "market share" efforts must be put into supporting that browser (ensuring compatibility). Well, Firefox has fallen below that threshold in the US (1.9%) and here in the UK it seems to have happened as well if one goes by statCounter's data:

This morning we recommended LibreWolf. It cannot solve Firefox compatibility issues, but it can help tackle the nasty things Mozilla added to Firefox (contributing to its linear demise). █