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not pissing off power users - who are the only people who use firefox - in an utterly futile attempt to attract the general population. this plea - that many p

not pissing off power users - who are the only people who use firefox - in an utterly futile attempt to attract the general population. this plea - that many people had made over the years - falls on deaf ears. mozilla is now ran by the kind of people who knows better than its users what we need, and we're wrong if we disagree.

eitland 4y ago
Important. Firefox got where it was partially because many of us installed it for coworkers and relatives and everyone else, not because ordinary users sat down to try to figure out what browsers existed and which one was better. Towards the end, Firefox was an easy sell. And, as you write, today they don't care or even actively resist when we try to help. Copying Chrome perfectly won't get any their users back. Funding all kinds of weird side projects won't get users back. Amazing, resource-efficient skinning might get some people back. Tree Style Tags and other plugins working amazingly well might get some users back. And when they start listen and fix the things we report things can improve very rapidly. There are also probably a number of other improvements that can be done (I've advocated looking into doing the same as asm.js, but with html and css: something like a put meta-tag announcing html-lite or html/asm or something in the head, use a restricted set of css and html that is rendering friendly and only uses these well thought out js-libraries and we will pass your code down a much more efficient rendering branch!)