Firefoxer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Firefoxers
Etymology: From Firefox + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Follow that up with a polite email to the site’s webmaster, asking him to test that page in Firefox. You may be helping a lot of fellow Firefoxers.
ref: 2005, Scott Granneman, Don’t Click on the Blue e!: Switching to Firefox, O’Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 182:
text: Firefoxers get paid to convert IE users / Your friends may soon try to make a buck off of you.
ref: 2006 May 8, “Out of Site at AdAge.com”, in Advertising Age, volume 77, number 19, page 38:
text: Most updates this month are iterative rather than substantial, but Firefoxers finally get their new Google Toolbar.
ref: 2006 June, “Up to Speed: Upgrades That’ll Keep You Humming Along”, in Computer Power User, volume 6, number 06, page 73:
text: […] Firefox is kind of the Web’s home-team favorite—[…]. Firefoxers even tried to set a Guinness World Record for most downloads (8.2 million) in a 24-hour period.
ref: 2008 July 14, Josh Quittner, “User’s Guide: The Better Browser. Firefox 3 is free—and well worth it”, in Time, page 62:
text: Facebook Dislike is another option for FireFoxers.^([sic])
ref: 2010 July 16, Ann Smarty, “2 Ways to DISlike Things on Facebook (FireFox and Google Chrome)”, in Search Engine Journal, archived from the original on 19 Jul 2010:
text: Tim Carmody (2011) of Wired.com wrote that the AptiQuant story spread on social media because the research supported what many of us already believed—that people with lower IQs resist change when it comes to their browsers (AptiQuant, 2011). Yes, story selection is often influenced by confirmation bias, but this hoax would have spread just as quickly if the data showed that Firefoxers were the dumbos.
ref: 2012, Lyn Millner, “A Little Bird Told Me”, in Journal of Mass Media Ethics, volume 27, number 1, →DOI, page 60:
text: In the long run, I suspect custom Firefox builds created solely for the sake of processor optimization will disappear, especially when Firefox rolls out its own native 64-bit build. (In fact, 64-bit Firefox is already available in the most recent nightly build of version 11.) But for now, there's still a culture of roll-your-own Firefoxers keeping the faith.
ref: 2012 March 14, Serdar Yegulalp, “4 Firefox rebuilds feed the need for speed”, in InfoWorld, archived from the original on 11 May 2023:
text: Bing is used by 5.3 percent of Firefoxers.
ref: 2012 August 29, Lucian Parfeni, “Despite Being the Default, IE Users Still Prefer Google to Bing”, in Softpedia, archived from the original on 01 Sep 2012:
text: Install Or Be Annoyed: Google Home Page Nags Firefoxers, Internet Explorers To Switch To Chrome
ref: 2012 September 4, Josh Constine, “Install Or Be Annoyed: Google Home Page Nags Firefoxers, Internet Explorers To Switch To Chrome”, in TechCrunch, archived from the original on 05 Sep 2012:
text: Firefoxers can find the Lightbeam add-on here.
ref: 2013 October 25, Evan Dashevsky, “Hands-on: Mozilla’s Lightbeam is info porn for privacy geeks”, in PCWorld, archived from the original on 16 Jan 2022:
text: All you do is hop on to Rabbit's website using Chrome or Opera (sorry, Firefoxers and Safariers), allow access to your camera and microphone, and use the browser-within-a-browser inside the Rabbit window to go wherever you want.
ref: 2014 August 19, Robert Sorokanich, “Rabbit Lets You Watch Videos With Friends, No Matter Where They Are”, in Gizmodo, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2014:
text: I was able to set up both the USB and Bluetooth keys in all of a minute through Chrome (Google tells me support for third-party browsers is still in development, all you Firefoxers).
ref: 2018 September 6, Mark Wilson, “I tried the Titan Key, the security fob used by 85,000 Google workers”, in Fast Company, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2018:
text: For those still keen to try it, Chrome users can grab the extension here. Firefoxers can download it here.
ref: 2019 March 26, David Canellis, “This app exposes which cryptocurrency a user is most likely to shill on Twitter”, in TNW, archived from the original on 26 Jul 2021:
text: While the half-million EdgeDeflector users could be comfortably ignored, hundreds of millions of Firefoxers probably could not be, he speculates.
ref: 2021 November 16, Alan Martin, “Microsoft is making it even harder to avoid the Edge browser in Windows 11”, in Tom’s Guide, archived from the original on 16 Nov 2021:
glosses: One who uses the web browser Firefox.