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I think there's a great market niche for Mozilla - they could be the browser for people who want more control and configurability than the competition. People w

I think there's a great market niche for Mozilla - they could be the browser for people who want more control and configurability than the competition. People who don't want an "intelligent" URL bar. I have a feeling they could capture a lot of the developer market that way. Unfortunately, that's not the direction they seem to be taking. They might still get a bunch of Manifest V3 refugees in the near future though.

hombre_fatal 7y ago
Aren't there already multiple forks that move slower than Firefox and resist change? Presumably the people who call minor feature changes "abominations that need to die" (seen in these HN comments) don't actually care enough to use those forks, so I'm not very convinced that there's any market in being a niche. All the HNers who pile on modern browsers couldn't even agree on the features their ideal browser should have, yet these same users are quite hostile in comments sections. Talk about a thankless niche. The top comment thread so far are people seemingly emotional because the new URL bar expands a few pixels when selected and selects all its text upon focus like Chrome's and Safari's UX teams have already decided is most useful to most people (including myself).
- Wowfunhappy 7y ago
  > Aren't there already multiple forks that move slower than Firefox and resist change? Not really. Pale Moon is much, much more than just a UI change at this point—their goal is to maintain compatibility with the old extension system, which is a much bigger deal. And it's increasingly incompatible with the modern web as a result.