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Just another wasted effort. It looks like Mozilla has completely lost its way. I get that the AI is going to be important in the next decade but Mozilla has sh

Just another wasted effort. It looks like Mozilla has completely lost its way. I get that the AI is going to be important in the next decade but Mozilla has shown that despite having a clear competitive advantage in something it cannot continue to grow. I don't mean to devalue what Mozilla is doing but its browser is completely ususable on my Linux Mint 20 with a high end graphics card. Compare that to chrome which works like a breeze. Although I champion open source & privacy at my org - I cannot but for the sake of my own productivity use any Mozilla product despite repeated attempts every quarter to try if it works better now...

taneq 3y ago
What does “unusable” mean? Slow (since you mention graphics card)? Unstable? You don’t like the UI?
tetris11 3y ago
> browser is completely ususable on my Linux Mint 20 with a high end graphics card Wild. Graphics card model? Firefox continues to be the most stable/performant browser on all of my devices. Some JS game demos run faster on chromium, yes, but the drop is not significant enough for me to permanently switch.
- cassianoleal 3y ago
  Same. Even on an old, very low end laptop I have in a drawer, Firefox is more or less the only thing that runs smoothly. On my MacBook and on my Linux gaming PC with a high-end graphics card (though admittedly not current-gen), it's as snappy as it gets.
CameronNemo 3y ago
How is it wasted? So much of their revenue comes from search deals, which are floundering in the courts and being displaced in the wild (by LLM-powered search). Now, people are paying money to use these LLM products. Which is a niche pricing strategy for search engines.
topspin 3y ago
> It looks like Mozilla has completely lost its way. Not at all. $30 million in bonus bumps. The way is looking good!
8bitsrule 3y ago
Nvidia driver? Using latest supported kernel? FF version? Chrome version?

taneq 3y ago

What does “unusable” mean? Slow (since you mention graphics card)? Unstable? You don’t like the UI?

tetris11 3y ago

> browser is completely ususable on my Linux Mint 20 with a high end graphics card Wild. Graphics card model? Firefox continues to be the most stable/performant browser on all of my devices. Some JS game demos run faster on chromium, yes, but the drop is not significant enough for me to permanently switch.

cassianoleal 3y ago
Same. Even on an old, very low end laptop I have in a drawer, Firefox is more or less the only thing that runs smoothly. On my MacBook and on my Linux gaming PC with a high-end graphics card (though admittedly not current-gen), it's as snappy as it gets.

CameronNemo 3y ago

How is it wasted? So much of their revenue comes from search deals, which are floundering in the courts and being displaced in the wild (by LLM-powered search). Now, people are paying money to use these LLM products. Which is a niche pricing strategy for search engines.

topspin 3y ago

> It looks like Mozilla has completely lost its way. Not at all. $30 million in bonus bumps. The way is looking good!

8bitsrule 3y ago

Nvidia driver? Using latest supported kernel? FF version? Chrome version?