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The irony is that Mozilla could make the world an objectively better place by being laser-focused in turning Firefox into the best browser possible. Taking awa

The irony is that Mozilla could make the world an objectively better place by being laser-focused in turning Firefox into the best browser possible. Taking away Chrome's marketshare and making a dent in Google's absolute power in the web should be their only goal, instead of whatever they diversified into.

pjmlp 3y ago
Indeed, instead they decided to be an NGO that does a browser as side project.
hnlmorg 3y ago
Firefox is already the best browser on the market in my opinion. Containers alone achieves this. The problem is that Mozilla doesn’t own a leading OS. So theyre always going to be an “also ran”. If history has taught us anything, it’s that the only way to succeed in build a successful browser is to build a successful operating system.
- deafpolygon 3y ago
  > The problem is that Mozilla doesn’t own a leading OS. And yet Google made Chrome the dominant browser on both Windows AND macOS. How do you explain that?
  - hnlmorg 3y ago
    Because Google is still a household brand. Everyone is familiar with Google search, Google Mail, Google Maps, Android, etc. And Chome came at a time when people were fed up with Internet Explorer. There was a gap in the market when Chrome came along. Remember that Firefox was beating the competition for a period back then too. But Mozilla isn’t a household name like Google. You don’t say “I Mozilled something last night.” Google is such a common name that people literally use it as a verb. But that all said, if Chome was released today with Edge being where it’s currently at (yes, I know Edge is based on Chromium, but let’s look past that for the sake of this hypothetical), Google would have a harder job gaining market share.
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    - pjmlp 3y ago
      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_OS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_OS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS Maybe Mozzilla should take another approach with such experiments.

pjmlp 3y ago

Indeed, instead they decided to be an NGO that does a browser as side project.

hnlmorg 3y ago

Firefox is already the best browser on the market in my opinion. Containers alone achieves this. The problem is that Mozilla doesn’t own a leading OS. So theyre always going to be an “also ran”. If history has taught us anything, it’s that the only way to succeed in build a successful browser is to build a successful operating system.

deafpolygon 3y ago
> The problem is that Mozilla doesn’t own a leading OS. And yet Google made Chrome the dominant browser on both Windows AND macOS. How do you explain that?
- hnlmorg 3y ago
  Because Google is still a household brand. Everyone is familiar with Google search, Google Mail, Google Maps, Android, etc. And Chome came at a time when people were fed up with Internet Explorer. There was a gap in the market when Chrome came along. Remember that Firefox was beating the competition for a period back then too. But Mozilla isn’t a household name like Google. You don’t say “I Mozilled something last night.” Google is such a common name that people literally use it as a verb. But that all said, if Chome was released today with Edge being where it’s currently at (yes, I know Edge is based on Chromium, but let’s look past that for the sake of this hypothetical), Google would have a harder job gaining market share.
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  - pjmlp 3y ago
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_OS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_OS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS Maybe Mozzilla should take another approach with such experiments.