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I shudder to think of what happens to Mozilla and Firefox if Google is banned from doing this.
by beej71 3y ago
I shudder to think of what happens to Mozilla and Firefox if Google is banned from doing this.
- influx 3y agoIt's not like they are exactly thriving even with this...
- ecshafer 3y agoThey would probably need to get a new CEO...
- cubefox 3y agoYeah. Mitchell Baker collects a lot of money for having achieved nothing. They should bring back Brendan Eich as CEO. Of course that's unrealistic.
- arp242 3y agoEich went in his own direction with Brave; it's highly unlikely he's interested in coming back as he's got his own thing going, and it's not like he's somehow so uniquely gifted or talented that he's the only person that can lead Mozilla.
- cubefox 3y agoNot the only person, but it is hard to know whether someone can do it. Mitchell clearly couldn't, she lost to Chrome.
- neurostimulant 3y agoI see this "bring back Brendan Eich as Mozilla's CEO" from time to time. His tenure as Mozilla's CEO was just 11 days. Did he achieved something great in his 11 days of service to warrant this sentiment? I would at least understand if it's "bring back Brendan Eich as Mozilla's CTO" given his years of tenure as Mozilla's CTO.
- cubefox 3y agoI think he did pretty well with Brave. He probably could do both CEO and CTO.
- encoderer 3y agoThey need to focus more on their product, in the spirit that made Firefox excellent when it was first released. I sadly just switched back to chrome after 3 years using fire fox.
- rolisz 3y agoWhy did you switch back to Chrome? What features did you miss?
- dano 3y agoFirefox needs to make Profiles a first class UI function. Yes, I understand that Firefox has containers, but I loath explaining containers to non-technical people. Chrome and Safari Profiles are much easier to use.
- beej71 3y agoI agree. I have about:profiles on my bookmark bar as a workaround. But it's not anywhere near as smooth as what Chrome has. I use multiple profiles everyday but this isn't enough to make me switch away from Firefox.
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- cubefox 3y agoI switched from Chrome to Firefox on mobile because it can install arbitrary browser extensions (with a workaround). Like the one that automatically applies dark mode to websites (even those that do not normally support it, like Hacker News) if the phone is in dark mode. Or the one that stops videos from playing by themselves. Or, I hate to admit, AdBlock.
- batch12 3y ago> Or, I hate to admit, AdBlock. This is my primary use case and I'm not ashamed of it :)