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Firefox is improving by leaps and bounds every day. But the market is not a meritocracy, as much as some people like to pretend it is. Success in the market is

by ripdog 8y ago

Firefox is improving by leaps and bounds every day. But the market is not a meritocracy, as much as some people like to pretend it is. Success in the market is much more to do with things like marketing, momentum, inertia, and general opinions. All of these things are favoring Chrome right now, and Mozilla is not in a position to turn this around. And you may not have noticed, but being popular doesn't actually give you money when your product is free and features no ads or tracking. All you are saying is that "google should give mozilla more money". How do you suggest they diversify their revenue stream?

jhasse 8y ago
I disagree. IMHO Chrome is a better browser than Firefox. A few examples from the top of my head why Firefox is worse than Chrome (on Linux): 1. Hardware acceleration is still disabled by default on Linux 2. Pocket 3. Unwanted notifications about wanting to update / being updated / having updated 3. Ugly spacing left and right of the adress bar 4. Takes longer to start 5. No integration with GNOME keychain. 6. Ctrl+Q quits the browser. 7. Laggy UI > How do you suggest they diversify their revenue stream? I would suggest that they don't need to diversify their revenue stream. As long as they are a major player, Google (or any other search engine) will continue to fund them.
- dblohm7 8y ago
  3. Ugly spacing left and right of the adress bar Those spacers are easily removed via customize mode.
  - jhasse 8y ago
    Sure, you can also fix a lot of other annoyances. But those add up until the point where someone just installs Chrome in the first place where the defaults are sane.