#MAC OS SAFARI SUPPORT SILVERLIGHT MOVIE#
Software players are tougher, especially if you're playing the movie in a browser. With hardware players like Smart TVs and Rokus, the manufacturer just has to demonstrate that the decrypted stream is sent directly to the display with no chance for the user to intercept it, and Hollywood is satisfied. But obviously the computer doing the displaying has to decrypt it. Hollywood doesn't want you to capture the video stream and save it to generate a digital copy of the movie, so the stream is encrypted. At that point even the big players with resources to waste on supporting Firefox won't even bother trying to. If you think it's being ignored now, just wait until it's down to 1% or 2% of the market.
It makes a lot more sense to ignore a few million Firefox users and instead focus on providing a better experience for the billions of people who use Chrome.īased on the current trends, Firefox will continue to see its market share shrink each month. People use Chrome because, despite its bad UI, it's a lot faster than Firefox is.įirefox's absolute number of users is still so proportionally small that it's not worth spending time and effort to support these users. Some people will wrongly blame "Google advertising" or claim that Firefox still has a "large absolute number of users", but those are both just excuses. Firefox essentially cloned the worst parts of Chrome (its UI and soon its extension system) while ignoring the best parts of Chrome (its excellent performance and low memory usage). But that's no longer the case, now that Mozilla has driven away so many Firefox users by making one unwanted change after another. Yes, Firefox was once a significant player.
#MAC OS SAFARI SUPPORT SILVERLIGHT FOR ANDROID#
Even UC Browser for Android has more users than Firefox. Even Opera Mini nearly has more users than Firefox has!įirefox has only about one-third the number of users that Chrome for Android has, and even Chrome for Android has fewer users than desktop Chrome.
To put that into perspective, Firefox now has roughly the same number of users in total that individual versions of other browsers (like IE 11 and iOS Safari 9.3) have. It's now only about 6% to 7% of the browser market, across all platforms and all versions of Firefox. The latest web browser market share stats paint a very unfortunate picture for Firefox.
Maybe the sites will work, maybe they won't. That means they don't even bother testing their sites with it. I don't know about the companies you listed, but many other web developers no longer consider Firefox to be a relevant browser.