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Being a die-hard Firefox user of 15+ years it hurts me to say, but WHO THE HELL CARES. Sounds like yet another random whimsical UI bullshit that Firefox is over

Being a die-hard Firefox user of 15+ years it hurts me to say, but WHO THE HELL CARES. Sounds like yet another random whimsical UI bullshit that Firefox is overflowing with these days. That's not what your core users want, more of an exact opposite, and it's not something that would help you stop FF market presence decline, leave alone reverse it.

klyrs 5y ago
I'm really sad about this. Every announcement I see from Mozilla fills me with dread that they're just milking whatever income they've got while driving the browser into the ground, in silent support of the inevitable Chrome monoculture.
- slig 5y ago
  It does seems to me that the half-billion dollars they get per year from Google is to make sure that Chrome has no competition whatsoever.
wubbert 5y ago
Mozilla hates their core users. They think that things like this will attract "trendie" and "diverse" users, which is a futile endeavor. "Trendie" people are always jumping from trend to trend, so even if they switch, they will just switch away when the new trend comes along. "Diverse" people use what ever panders to their race or sexuality the most, and Google panders to them far more than Mozilla ever could. Maybe when Mozilla finally kicks the bucket in a few years, someone will start something else that isn't just a Chrome fork.
- _hl_ 5y ago
  > "Diverse" people use what ever panders to their race or sexuality the most, and Google panders to them far more than Mozilla ever could. At the risk of sounding ignorant, how the fuck can a browser, the most universal platform we have right now, cater to any specific minority group? I'd get it if you were talking about accessibility, but what does the browser have to do with your race or sexuality?
  - userbinator 5y ago
    It's called woke-ism. The new trend of corporate dumbing-down feel-good marketingspeak.
  - guilhas 5y ago
    I think is a relevant parallel because those ideologies currently tell you to be yourself, but then praise looks over values and goals Colorways and current Mozilla is the same, appearances over content
- handrous 5y ago
  > Maybe when Mozilla finally kicks the bucket in a few years, someone will start something else that isn't just a Chrome fork. I hoped for quite a while that Servo was the beginning of something that would become the Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox to Firefox's current bloated, Mozilla-(the browser)-like state. The layoffs mostly crushed that hope.
  - orev 5y ago
    They’ve said before that the work that was done in Servo has already been incorporated into the shipping version of Firefox. It would have been better if they didn’t have to do layoffs, however the Servo project served its purpose.
- firebaze 5y ago
  Reminds me of Marvels New Avengers. To a select group of people it sounds like the best idea ever.
- maccolgan 5y ago
  It so appears Mozilla has decided to die on this hill, remember that they published the "We need more than deplatforming" bullshit last year while Firefox slowly bleeds to death.

klyrs 5y ago

I'm really sad about this. Every announcement I see from Mozilla fills me with dread that they're just milking whatever income they've got while driving the browser into the ground, in silent support of the inevitable Chrome monoculture.

slig 5y ago
It does seems to me that the half-billion dollars they get per year from Google is to make sure that Chrome has no competition whatsoever.

wubbert 5y ago

Mozilla hates their core users. They think that things like this will attract "trendie" and "diverse" users, which is a futile endeavor. "Trendie" people are always jumping from trend to trend, so even if they switch, they will just switch away when the new trend comes along. "Diverse" people use what ever panders to their race or sexuality the most, and Google panders to them far more than Mozilla ever could. Maybe when Mozilla finally kicks the bucket in a few years, someone will start something else that isn't just a Chrome fork.

_hl_ 5y ago
> "Diverse" people use what ever panders to their race or sexuality the most, and Google panders to them far more than Mozilla ever could. At the risk of sounding ignorant, how the fuck can a browser, the most universal platform we have right now, cater to any specific minority group? I'd get it if you were talking about accessibility, but what does the browser have to do with your race or sexuality?
- userbinator 5y ago
  It's called woke-ism. The new trend of corporate dumbing-down feel-good marketingspeak.
- guilhas 5y ago
  I think is a relevant parallel because those ideologies currently tell you to be yourself, but then praise looks over values and goals Colorways and current Mozilla is the same, appearances over content
handrous 5y ago
> Maybe when Mozilla finally kicks the bucket in a few years, someone will start something else that isn't just a Chrome fork. I hoped for quite a while that Servo was the beginning of something that would become the Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox to Firefox's current bloated, Mozilla-(the browser)-like state. The layoffs mostly crushed that hope.
- orev 5y ago
  They’ve said before that the work that was done in Servo has already been incorporated into the shipping version of Firefox. It would have been better if they didn’t have to do layoffs, however the Servo project served its purpose.
firebaze 5y ago
Reminds me of Marvels New Avengers. To a select group of people it sounds like the best idea ever.
maccolgan 5y ago
It so appears Mozilla has decided to die on this hill, remember that they published the "We need more than deplatforming" bullshit last year while Firefox slowly bleeds to death.