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It sounds good in theory, but it just isn't true. Mozilla is null factor these days, and most of their income has actually been from Google. Google is most lik
by RedComet 6y ago
It sounds good in theory, but it just isn't true. Mozilla is null factor these days, and most of their income has actually been from Google.
Google is most likely keeping them afloat just to ward off a stray monopoly charge at this point.
- pygy_ 6y agoIt became clear to me with the recent layoffs. Their strategy to grow their user share seemed twofold: better tech (through Servo/Rust) and dev-oriented features (their market share among devs was much higher than among the general population). They cut deeply into both of these.
- pygy_ 6y agoAdding to this: Getting back dev mindshare was IMO critical for their success. 90% of https://webcompat.com/ https://webcompat.com/ is sites that are broken in Firefox, not necessarily because FF isn't standard compliant, but because many Web devs just dont bother testing their sites/apps with it anymore. As for better tech I suppose they chose a 80/20 approach, but I'm not sure it will suffice.
- gcblkjaidfj 6y agoWell, to be honest, nowadays I think that the sooner mozilla dies, the better for firefox :( But anything will only happens if there's a user base as contributors are a (small) ratio from that number.