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It's not obvious to me that Mozilla is doing anything very wrong, except for not having enough money to keep their browser experience as polished as Chrome's, a
by threatofrain 7y ago
It's not obvious to me that Mozilla is doing anything very wrong, except for not having enough money to keep their browser experience as polished as Chrome's, and most importantly, they aren't marketing like Google.
Google doesn't need their browser to make money, and Google advertises their browser in ways that Mozilla can't match. It's surprising that Mozilla can even be half-healthy.
- RandyRanderson 7y ago500MM USD is not enough to build- sorry maintain a browser???? https://www.computerworld.com/article/3322912/mozillas-2017-expenses-grew-twice-the-rate-of-revenue.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/3322912/mozillas-2017-...
- threatofrain 7y agoMozilla is already maintaining and improving Firefox while exploring other things like Rust, but they're not winning the war against Google. And improvement is relative -- to Google. Maintaining is losing, esp. while Google isn't just competing on browsers but also ecosystem. Otherwise I'm sure Microsoft would like to be the winner. And there are new users everyday. It makes sense that some of those new experiences are the system defaults, like Safari or Edge. It also makes sense that some of those experiences would be Chrome if you're in the Google ecosystem. But why Firefox? Privacy? I don't think that's bad, I just don't think it's enough vs Google.