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Designers and community managers sure as hell are not going to fix Firefox's speed. Programmers are surely not going to focus on this. Mozilla has more than o

by r3bl 10y ago

Designers and community managers sure as hell are not going to fix Firefox's speed. Programmers are surely not going to focus on this. Mozilla has more than one team. The speed has nothing to do with the logo. That's like saying: Samsung's new flagship phone is exploding, and they're focusing on making washing machines?

zyx321 10y ago
>Samsung's new flagship phone is exploding, and they're focusing on making washing machines? Their washing machines are exploding, too.
dingaling 10y ago
> That's like saying: Samsung's new flagship phone is exploding, and they're focusing on making washing machines? The difference being that Samsung's repsective divisions are run as self-funding corporations. The Android development team in their bubble don't have any financial impact on the shipbuilding folks or the washing-machine QA teams. In contrast Mozilla has essentially only one revenue flow, orders of magnitudes greater than the secondary flows. So every dollar that Mozilla spends on 'rebranding' or flailing around with The IoT is one dollar less for paying developers to fix Firefox bugs, or maintain Thunderbird or Persona or whatever.
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- rockdoe 10y ago
  Aside from Firefox itself all the things you mentioned got either canned or significantly downsized. Note that Firefox is "owned" by the non-profit Mozilla Foundation which is using it to generate funding for the things it considers important. Given that many of those involve activism, improving branding or messaging seems like a natural investment. It's like whining that Samsung was spending money on their (then-irrelevant) SSD division at a time when their hard drives were starting to get pressured in the market.
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