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I agree on the general position. And I use Firefox as my main browser on my secondary laptop. But I think your rant goes too far in the other direction. For ins
by idoubtit 5y ago
I agree on the general position. And I use Firefox as my main browser on my secondary laptop. But I think your rant goes too far in the other direction. For instance:
> You are free to donate, instead.
Donations go to the Mozilla Foundation, which allocates money to various internal and external projects. So why donate if it doesn't fund the web browser? From their own words:
"Mozilla Fellows and Awardees represent a range of disciplines and geographies: They are policymakers in Kenya, journalists in Brazil, engineers in Germany, privacy activists in the United States, and data scientists in the Netherlands." in https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/what-we-fund/ https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/what-we-fund/
> So they bundled a service or two at some point. You clicked 'no' and were never bothered again.
That's not the only problem, and far from it. As a power user, I've been annoyed by the removal of features. At some point, to keep vertical tabs, I had to modify obscure config files, and venture into the poorly document about:config. And Firefox last rewrite of their download manager was full of bugs, with half of them still there a year after. If not for the free software and web engine competitor, I would not use Firefox.
For my aging parents, the Firefox experience is far from smooth. An upgrade lost their frontpage bookmarks. Several others changed the UI to the point they had to call me.
- ajb 5y agoFirefox is open source. If people don't like how mozilla is spending it's money, there is nothing stopping another foundation being set up solely to fund developers to work on it. Unlike Mozilla, it wouldn't be in control of the releases. But features are certainly less likely to disappear if someone is there to maintain them. At the moment Mozilla does feel like an eggs in one basket situation for the community.