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> Firefox already does this and continues to be supported. Not sure what you’re talking about. And I enjoy it everyday. Happy to clarify. I am talking about yo
by mejutoco 4y ago
> Firefox already does this and continues to be supported. Not sure what you’re talking about.
And I enjoy it everyday. Happy to clarify. I am talking about your claims
> Frankly Mozilla already lost that and people demanding Mozilla stay firefox focused are telling the company to death spiral.
> Firefox has no path, literally none, in getting a significant marketing share. And even if they did the company has no real way to monetize.
This is hyperbole. Firefox could push for the privacy angle, or the no-ads angle, or have the best developer tools, or a lot of other potential paths, and it could resonate with a lot of people, and win market share.
Firefox already has a way to monetize the default search engine, and they were doing fine with that before the started following all kinds of non-core initiatives and behaving like a big respected corporation.
If Mozilla focused on their core product this revenue could be enough to be profitable. This is not due to market share, or some defeatist prediction, but to mismanagement IMO as an outsider.
I think focus on the core product is exactly what they need. That is how they started.
P.S. Unrelated, but the whole topic reminds me of Unity $4.4B acquisition of ironSource (an Ad company), instead of focusing on providing a better Game engine (their core product).