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Building a secure, fast, usable web browser is a near-impossible task on its own. Anything else they do involves a couple of orders of magnitude less effort. Mo
by vertex-four 9y ago
Building a secure, fast, usable web browser is a near-impossible task on its own. Anything else they do involves a couple of orders of magnitude less effort. Mozilla would still need the vast majority of funding they currently get to do that.
The problem isn't that they're doing too much - it's that they have nearly no business model, and any attempt to create a business model appears to be selling out to users.
- saas_co_de 9y agoNo. It is actually pretty easy. Just fork chromium, strip out the spyware, and add your own layer of features on top. There are a lot of companies doing this now and Mozilla would be far more successful if they followed this model instead of trying to copy chrome's user experience on top of their inferior browser engine.
- paulryanrogers 9y agoYet we also need variety in our engines. Otherwise it's IE6 all over again. Diversity makes us stronger.
- vertex-four 9y agoThen we get one company deciding which features should and should not be available to a web page.