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Who is going to pay for Firefox if they fired the people pushing the tech forward (i.e. the servo team)? If anybody is going to pay for a browser it must be be
by LordHeini 6y ago
Who is going to pay for Firefox if they fired the people pushing the tech forward (i.e. the servo team)?
If anybody is going to pay for a browser it must be better than its competition.
I would pay for better privacy, adblocking, higher speed, better dev tools and what not.
But Firefox is not so much better than Chromium in any of these points to warrant payment.
- eitland 6y ago> But Firefox is not so much better than Chromium in any of these points to warrant payment. I vastly prefer Firefox and always did for some reason (I keep testing Opera, Vivalidi, Chromium and what not but none of them clicked with me) but I still see you point, it would be hard for many to justify a high price even if they prefer it. I'd still happily pay for Firefox (not Mozilla) but I'd consider it an insurance more than an investment at the moment.
- vinw 6y agoThey let the Servo team go?! Does that mean Gecko isn't going to see any significant new development?
- kolaente 6y agoIts not very clear at this point[0]. [0] https://github.com/servo/servo/discussions/27575 https://github.com/servo/servo/discussions/27575
- coffeefirst 6y agoThe more I think about it, the more this seems like a giant branding error. Individually, all their paid offerings aren't that interesting. Scroll, Pocket, and privacy VPN's are all fine little niche products, but bundled together and called Firefox Pro, it gives you vision of what a premium browser might look like: the browser is free, paid users get a collection of services and support the open web.