
Which is presumably the motivation for putting Firefox View so clearly in-view. On mobile Firefox isn’t even an afterthought: it is no-where in terms of marketshare or (more importantly for this rant) mindshare. Its desktop marketshare continues to plummet year on year, and is now pegged at sub 5% in America - for the one-time rival to Internet Explore. Also: it’s very widely used - Firefox is the browser zeitgeist, innit.īut out in the wider world? There, Firefox fares a lot worse. In FOSS-world, this browser is still a big deal I can pretty much count on a lone hand the number of major Linux distros that don’t ship it as their default browser.

This is a dashboard-style overview showing your 3 most recently closed tabs, plus sections to “pickup” tabs you’re gawking at on your other devices, and promotion for more limited-edition “colorways” (no idea, lol).Īs a Linux user I take for granted how omnipresent Firefox is. The unexpected addition (that masquerade as a pinned tab) is for new feature (in testing) called Firefox View.


I run beta builds of Firefox on my desktop and noticed something unexpected had recently prepended itself to my browser’s tab bar.
