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> And yet no one will actually pay for it as a product. I'm not sure how many there are that would pay for it, but I'm sure it's not zero. I believe a browser
by luckylion 6y ago
> And yet no one will actually pay for it as a product.
I'm not sure how many there are that would pay for it, but I'm sure it's not zero.
I believe a browser is like an IDE, and I'm quite happy to pay for mine, as are plenty of other people apparently, JetBrains & Co are making good money. They are focused on their users though, which Firefox isn't.
I'm pretty sure that Firefox could get plenty of paying users at $100/yr even just by focusing on good developer experience. They don't though, and Chromium does.
- apeescape 6y agoThat's a good point. A business plan along the lines of, for $8/month you get the pro edition which has all the latest features and updates, which the free tier would get 6 months later or so. I use FF (dev edition) as my primary dev browser, and it's made a lot of progress on DX. Chromium has a smoother experience overall, but FF is not too shabby nowadays.