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I'm thankful to Mozilla to produce multi-platform software libre, but I also have some comments about their current priorities. I think Firefox should try to g
by sanbor 10y ago
I'm thankful to Mozilla to produce multi-platform software libre, but I also have some comments about their current priorities.
I think Firefox should try to gain users again with a good browser that it's fast and has great features expected in a browser. In this chart you can see how Chrome users increments and Firefox users decrement [1].
A feature to chat, call and share my screen it's not a feature that I expect from a browser. A button to store bookmarks in a third-party service it's not a feature that I expect in a browser.
A good printing functionality or to save a page as PDF it's something that I would expect from a browser (you can save a page as PDF in Firefox for Android but not in desktop).
Last year I made a little web project[2] that would take a group of images and generate a printable calendar. I'm fluent in CSS and HTML and it was pretty easy to make. To my surprise, Firefox has the same print dialog like from Firefox 1.0. I wasn't able to generate a decent pdf from their printing dialog, which was extremely basic and without a preview support.
Chrome and Safari were pretty good and I was able to get very good results. They both show you a preview of the page before sending it to print.
I am surprised to see that Firefox invests time and effort in things like VR[3] while lacking a good printing experience (I think a good printing experience would help lots of more people in concrete ways).
Finally, after seeing how they abandon projects like Persona, FirefoxOS or Thunderbird, I'm not very prone to invest time in their projects that maybe they will end up abandoning (I have the same feeling with Google).
Anyway, this is intended as feedback and hoping that they will start listening users about what they want from their browsers. Right now seems the opposite, Mozilla creative people trying to convince users that they want the things that they come up with.
[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#/media/File:Usage_share_of_web_browsers_(Source_StatCounter).svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#/m...)
[2](https://github.com/sanbor/printable-calendar https://github.com/sanbor/printable-calendar)
[3](http://mozvr.com/ http://mozvr.com/)