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>its current status at ~10% marketshare is enough to sustain its operation. Nothing bad enough is happening, no interest or incentive for changes. Inertia. To

>its current status at ~10% marketshare is enough to sustain its operation. Nothing bad enough is happening, no interest or incentive for changes. Inertia. To take the role of devil's advocate, what should Mozilla's goal be here? They're a self-sustaining nonprofit competing against titans of the modern business landscape. Should they aim for 100% market share? 2%? Why? Maybe, counter-intuitively, instead their focus should be on fair, reasonable standard-setting that allows 50 2% market share flavors, rather than themselves achieving 100%? The scuttlebutt on these boards is Chrome achieves it's advantage by unfairly or aggressively pushing standards or proprietary features that become a de-facto standard, so maybe Mozilla's derivative mission should be lobbying for sector-specific binding rules on common standards and interoperability for dominant technologies? That's a public policy problem not unique to browsers or a single dominant vendor, and one Mozilla is well positioned to address, maybe even politely enough not to disrupt its primary income stream

ksec 5y ago
My ideal has always been 30% in total. Large enough to have a voice on many web issues, and not small enough to be pushed side. And interestingly enough, Firefox at its peak was around 30% during its battle against IE and web sites finally had to test their site against Firefox. Right now it is 10% "Desktop" only ( I should have been clear ), Firefox get practically zero on Mobile. ( You can ignore Statscunter's Global All Platform numbers which somehow points to ~5% for Firefox. I never had time to dig up how they arrive at the number as it doesn't make any sense ). A combined market share including tablet would be 2-3% if not less. It wont ever be a 100% because Mozilla dont own any platform. They try to have their own platform with Firefox OS. Which was at the time painful to watch. And of course, may be Mozilla dont have to change. Some people only wants to break their reliance on Google. You could always have another competing browser with chromium.

ksec 5y ago

My ideal has always been 30% in total. Large enough to have a voice on many web issues, and not small enough to be pushed side. And interestingly enough, Firefox at its peak was around 30% during its battle against IE and web sites finally had to test their site against Firefox. Right now it is 10% "Desktop" only ( I should have been clear ), Firefox get practically zero on Mobile. ( You can ignore Statscunter's Global All Platform numbers which somehow points to ~5% for Firefox. I never had time to dig up how they arrive at the number as it doesn't make any sense ). A combined market share including tablet would be 2-3% if not less. It wont ever be a 100% because Mozilla dont own any platform. They try to have their own platform with Firefox OS. Which was at the time painful to watch. And of course, may be Mozilla dont have to change. Some people only wants to break their reliance on Google. You could always have another competing browser with chromium.