<story><title>Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/17/firefox-mozilla-fights-back-against-google-chrome-dominance-privacy-fears</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chappi42</author><text>The article once more reiterates the fact that Apple doesn&amp;#x27;t allow other browser engines. You cannot even fight, there is no future ;-)   on iOS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ken</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s a convenient excuse on iOS, but Firefox is doing poorly on macOS, too, where no such restriction exists.  According to the first statistics I found, Firefox is only about half as popular on the Mac as it in on Windows -- and it&amp;#x27;s still under 10% there, too.&lt;p&gt;Privacy-compromising systems aren&amp;#x27;t winning today because people seek out systems that compromise their privacy.  They&amp;#x27;re winning because these companies focused on making the user interface good.  Firefox will win big again when they stop talking about privacy and start making a UI that isn&amp;#x27;t lousy.&lt;p&gt;True, Apple is talking about privacy a lot these days, but they&amp;#x27;ve been focusing on UX first for decades.  You can&amp;#x27;t &lt;i&gt;start&lt;/i&gt; with &amp;quot;here is an abstract principle that&amp;#x27;s good for you, and you should use our systems because of it&amp;quot;.  The Free Software Foundation tried that for years.  It doesn&amp;#x27;t work.&lt;p&gt;Privacy is important, but it&amp;#x27;s a feature, not a product.  You still need to have a great product.</text></comment>
<story><title>Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web</title><url>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/17/firefox-mozilla-fights-back-against-google-chrome-dominance-privacy-fears</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chappi42</author><text>The article once more reiterates the fact that Apple doesn&amp;#x27;t allow other browser engines. You cannot even fight, there is no future ;-)   on iOS.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nfriedly</author><text>If Apple allowed Firefox on iOS - real Firefox with the rendering engine and extensions and everything, just like Android - I probably would have switched already.&lt;p&gt;As it stands, I stay on Android mostly for Firefox.</text></comment>