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I don't think it's a contest really. I'm happy using Firefox knowing it's got a small marketshare. The same way I vote for a small political party knowing they'

I don't think it's a contest really. I'm happy using Firefox knowing it's got a small marketshare. The same way I vote for a small political party knowing they'll never win any election. With Firefox I don't see any issues related to the marketshare. All add-ons I want are available and all websites work just fine except one or two that just block it outright just out of spite (Apple Business Manager - business.apple.com being one)

pjmlp 6y ago
Sure, but what do you think it will happen the day Google no longer supports its development? As far as I know Mozilla doesn't have that many sources to keep it running, and the latest round of layouffs was kind of a signal of what is yet to come.
- tristan957 6y ago
  Your speculation doesn't hold water. They have been increasing their hiring recently, and their layoffs were largely in areas where community members could power development and in experimental areas. MDN still exists and has good info. Note anyone can contribute straight on GitHub. Servo got picked up by the Linux Foundation after much of Servo already got integrated into Firefox. The Rust Foundation recently started and multiple big names have picked up large Rust contributors. So Mozilla made a smart move laying off those people. People on HN don't want to admit it.
  - pjmlp 6y ago
    We are talking about browsers with serious market share here, Rust and Servo are irrelevant to the future of the Web. Let Google close the money stream and lets see what happens. I hope to be wrong.
- GekkePrutser 6y ago
  Well then we'll see what happens... For now it's great. Nothing is forever, even Internet explorer came to an end after its (totally undeserved) monopoly. I would pay a lot though to keep it going. Like 100 a year or so (for me that's a lot :) )

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I don't think it's a contest really. I'm happy using Firefox knowing it's got a small marketshare. The same way I vote for a small political party knowing they'

by GekkePrutser 6y ago

pjmlp 6y ago
Sure, but what do you think it will happen the day Google no longer supports its development? As far as I know Mozilla doesn't have that many sources to keep it running, and the latest round of layouffs was kind of a signal of what is yet to come.
- tristan957 6y ago
  Your speculation doesn't hold water. They have been increasing their hiring recently, and their layoffs were largely in areas where community members could power development and in experimental areas. MDN still exists and has good info. Note anyone can contribute straight on GitHub. Servo got picked up by the Linux Foundation after much of Servo already got integrated into Firefox. The Rust Foundation recently started and multiple big names have picked up large Rust contributors. So Mozilla made a smart move laying off those people. People on HN don't want to admit it.
  - pjmlp 6y ago
    We are talking about browsers with serious market share here, Rust and Servo are irrelevant to the future of the Web. Let Google close the money stream and lets see what happens. I hope to be wrong.
- GekkePrutser 6y ago
  Well then we'll see what happens... For now it's great. Nothing is forever, even Internet explorer came to an end after its (totally undeserved) monopoly. I would pay a lot though to keep it going. Like 100 a year or so (for me that's a lot :) )