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> Every non-chrome browser has to answer the question "why use me instead of Chrome" and for Firefox it's the activism. you might not like that but it's what Mo
by ndriscoll 4y ago
> Every non-chrome browser has to answer the question "why use me instead of Chrome" and for Firefox it's the activism. you might not like that but it's what Mozilla's got.
The problem is that Mozilla's raison d'etre used to be about technical merit and user agency, including privacy and customization features. Chrome doesn't set a particularly high bar here, so Firefox could still be about this (and in fact Firefox is still the better choice despite themselves), but over the last few years they've gone in exactly the wrong direction.
Browsers were themeable 20 years ago. Everything used to be themeable. Things like CSS show these roots in their design, but Mozilla thinks that user stylesheets are a "legacyUserProfileCustomizations" instead of a fundamental design feature now.
The whole idea of limited time marketing is to create anxiety and FOMO. It's completely anti-ethical to user-focused design.