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Advertising in Firefox could be a great business, but it isn’t the right business for us at this time because we want to focus on core experiences for our u

Advertising in Firefox could be a great business, but it isn’t the right business for us at this time because we want to focus on core experiences for our users. Translation, "we were seeing users flee to alternatives like Pale Moon and need to backtrack. Please accept this marketing-speak damage control as an apology that doesn't actually admit we made a mistake."

nonbel 11y ago
If that's the case, they still haven't learned the lesson: >"We want to reimagine content experiences and content discovery in our products"
dangoor 11y ago
It seems highly unlikely that "seeing users flee to alternatives like Pale Moon" has anything to do with this. How many users do you suppose Pale Moon has? Firefox competes at a very large scale. Browsers that are not Chrome, IE, Safari and Opera are likely blips that don't register. It wouldn't surprise me if the tiles were a blip in Mozilla's revenue.
- hysan 11y ago
  I'm probably in the minority, but I pretty much gave up on Firefox because of their chain of anti-freedom decisions and went to Safari. I figured that if I'm gonna lose control of my browser and privacy, I might as well use a product that gives me extra perks/polish at the cost of my freedom. Because let's face it, Firefox is no where near as polished and good of an experience as Safari (when on OS X) or Chrome (when on Windows/Linux). It was the ability to completely control and mold FF into what you want that made it so great. Without that, FF is a second tier browser.
  - jcastro 11y ago
    > chain of anti-freedom decisions and went to Safari. You really showed them!
    - hysan 11y ago
      ? I didn't make the decision to prove anything to anyone. I just made the most logical decision (for me) based on trade-offs. If I'm unable to maintain control of my browser and my privacy on FF, then I don't see a point in using a worse product. And as I said, it's probably a minority opinion, but I believe that without those freedoms, FF is a poor browser compared to its major competitors.

nonbel 11y ago

If that's the case, they still haven't learned the lesson: >"We want to reimagine content experiences and content discovery in our products"

dangoor 11y ago

It seems highly unlikely that "seeing users flee to alternatives like Pale Moon" has anything to do with this. How many users do you suppose Pale Moon has? Firefox competes at a very large scale. Browsers that are not Chrome, IE, Safari and Opera are likely blips that don't register. It wouldn't surprise me if the tiles were a blip in Mozilla's revenue.

hysan 11y ago
I'm probably in the minority, but I pretty much gave up on Firefox because of their chain of anti-freedom decisions and went to Safari. I figured that if I'm gonna lose control of my browser and privacy, I might as well use a product that gives me extra perks/polish at the cost of my freedom. Because let's face it, Firefox is no where near as polished and good of an experience as Safari (when on OS X) or Chrome (when on Windows/Linux). It was the ability to completely control and mold FF into what you want that made it so great. Without that, FF is a second tier browser.
- jcastro 11y ago
  > chain of anti-freedom decisions and went to Safari. You really showed them!
  - hysan 11y ago
    ? I didn't make the decision to prove anything to anyone. I just made the most logical decision (for me) based on trade-offs. If I'm unable to maintain control of my browser and my privacy on FF, then I don't see a point in using a worse product. And as I said, it's probably a minority opinion, but I believe that without those freedoms, FF is a poor browser compared to its major competitors.