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It really defies comprehension how much Mozilla has fallen over a decade. This link (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Browser_war-11.sv
by vntok 5y ago
It really defies comprehension how much Mozilla has fallen over a decade. This link (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Browser_war-11.svg/500px-Browser_war-11.svg.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/Br...) gives a broad picture of the incredible fall they sustained.
They were perfectly positioned in the late 2000s, all they had to do was to keep laser focused on (1) offering a Web agent working for its user vs Google's Web client (privacy, extensibility, compatibility), (2) web standards, which would have limited the damage from Chrome and resulted in a healthy competitive landscape.
I for one refuse to believe that Google's "monopoly on the most popular Web properties" is responsible. Duckduckgo is a tremendous success, Opera does way more than simply surviving, Brave has a tiny team and strives, etc. All of those share having a vision and executing with a laser focus on a single aspect of that vision.
Anyway, now Mozilla is so far down in market share that they are virtually undistinguishable from the rest of the pack.
Prediction time: with the recent developers layoffs and teams restructuring, the writing is on the wall: barring a positive external impetus, in a few years tops, they will fork Blink and continue their descent to irrelevancy. At first they will spin it as a necessary evil to pivot the dev effort back to the browser, but no one will be fooled.
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