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Same concern. I switched last year from Chrome back to Firefox after a few too many anti-consumer moves by Google and really hoping Firefox remains a viable alt
by nness 6y ago
Same concern. I switched last year from Chrome back to Firefox after a few too many anti-consumer moves by Google and really hoping Firefox remains a viable alternative.
They're already lagging in a few places and that gap will only grow.
- gjsman-1000 6y agoThey laid off most of the engineering team at Firefox already. With that move, and the fact that they are losing market share to their Chromium-based competitors (Edge, Vivaldi, etc.), that put's Google's default search engine deal in question, which is like 90% of Mozilla's funding. Should they lose enough market share that Google decides they don't need them anymore, Firefox is dead overnight.
- nness 6y agoAgreed, it would also meant the establishment of WebKit (and its variants) as the de-facto rendering engine of the web.
- cpmsmith 6y agoThe really frustrating thing is that the gap hasn't only been growing. Firefox was far slower than Chrome for a long time, and over the past couple of years pulled off a pretty impressive catch-up, which is why I and others finally went back. Now Mozilla's laid off most of the team that executed that very catch-up with Servo. Either my anecdotal experience of the speed bringing people back is an overestimation, or Mozilla's management really are as inept as everyone seems to think.