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Unpopular opinion, but why should it be the community's burden to save a company that takes in over $300m in revenue (and apparently spends every bit of it) eac
by filmgirlcw 11y ago
Unpopular opinion, but why should it be the community's burden to save a company that takes in over $300m in revenue (and apparently spends every bit of it) each year and, let's be real, hasn't managed to keep up or evolve along with the web? Why is it up to us to save them if they haven't really tried to save themselves?
I love Mozilla -- as a concept -- and I want to live in a world where Mozilla and its products still exist. But I can't remember the last time I used Firefox. And yes, it's partially because I'm a Mac user, but it's also because I can't choose ideals over a superior product.
That Mozilla languished on the desktop is sad, but almost understandable. IE languished too. (Microsoft was smart enough to replace it, even if the replacement did come years after it should have), but to languish on mobile is just inexcusable.
Firefox Phone was a project that could have worked for certain markets for a very brief period of time, but they had to know they started too late and were going after an ever-shrinking market when they started.
Sure, it would have been great for HTML5 to win over apps. It didn't happen. It's likely never going to happen (not until the next mobile paradigm shift happens anyway).
But instead of focusing on building the ultimate browser -- desktop or mobile -- I don't know what Mozilla did. I really don't.
But now they are struggling. And it puts the good work they do in jeopardy. And that's sad. But since when is it my responsibility (or yours) to subsidize a company with a $300m annual run rate who can't help itself. A company with very opaque goals and no roadmap.
I'm all for saving Mozilla but it needs to show me it wants to be saved.
- rewqfdsa 11y agoGoogle wasn't fighting fair. To allow the Chrome team to run free advertisements on the world's most popular website and to allow them to install their browser by default on the world's most popular mobile operating system, well, it's jus dirty. You could advertise IE6 that way and get significant adoption.
- artifaxx 11y agoI agree that being the default is an unfair advantage, but there is a grey zone for sure. Most applications we use have defaults of some sort, so what cutoff should we use to determine the unfair ones consistently?
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- rewqfdsa 11y agoYep. Firefox is still a great browser. I'm looking toward the Servo-based version.
- tajen 11y agoI don't understand the web developer tools of Firefox. I've forced myself to use it for 2 days, I don't find my way around. Even IE is better now. For the rest FF is pretty equal to Chrome, so if they improve the developer tools they can count me back.