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I agree with Mozilla, but they have bigger internal problems than external ones. They started losing market share back whenever and their response was to try an

by roenxi 3y ago

I agree with Mozilla, but they have bigger internal problems than external ones. They started losing market share back whenever and their response was to try and clone Chrome as closely as they could. So now the options are we can either use semi-Chrome with less resources behind it or real a Chrome-based browser (plug for Brave!). They're in a strategic dead end, the reasons to pick Firefox are very slim. They should have committed harder to being extension-heavy. At least then they'd be interesting and even if niche they'd have a niche to operate in. Now it is just hard to see why they should be relevant. It is helpful to have someone complaining about what everyone else is doing wrong, but they don't need the budget they have to do that. I manage to fill that role on a pro-bono basis.

mrich 3y ago
What do you mean by extension heavy? In my experience, Firefox has the best extension ecosystem amongst all browsers. It took them quite long to get that to work on mobile, but even there you could use all extensions already on a developer build for years. Especially with the manifest v3 changes, which will basically break adblockers on Chrome-based browsers, I can't imagine ever using something else than Firefox.
isaacremuant 3y ago
> They're in a strategic dead end, the reasons to pick Firefox are very slim. This is such a wrong statement and has nothing to back it up. Why is it first. Firefox has: - much higher customization options (huge) - different features such as multi account containers - a different profit model not based on ads and intrusion. Mozilla is not acting like a monopoly and trying to force people to watch their ads. - A different engine. - a better strategy for Ram - a different UI - and much more. Some of us, have enjoyed Firefox for aged and will keep doing so. We're power users and not people who act like popularity due to external marketing capabilities and default pushing is reason enough to say "other browsers should not be relevant". Wtf is your comment, honestly. Now, if you want to talk about Mozilla missing their money for US culture wars (Rep vs Dem) and issues unrelated to tech, then i agree. But technology wise, Firefox is a very easy case to make.

by roenxi 3y ago

mrich 3y ago

What do you mean by extension heavy? In my experience, Firefox has the best extension ecosystem amongst all browsers. It took them quite long to get that to work on mobile, but even there you could use all extensions already on a developer build for years. Especially with the manifest v3 changes, which will basically break adblockers on Chrome-based browsers, I can't imagine ever using something else than Firefox.

isaacremuant 3y ago

> They're in a strategic dead end, the reasons to pick Firefox are very slim. This is such a wrong statement and has nothing to back it up. Why is it first. Firefox has: - much higher customization options (huge) - different features such as multi account containers - a different profit model not based on ads and intrusion. Mozilla is not acting like a monopoly and trying to force people to watch their ads. - A different engine. - a better strategy for Ram - a different UI - and much more. Some of us, have enjoyed Firefox for aged and will keep doing so. We're power users and not people who act like popularity due to external marketing capabilities and default pushing is reason enough to say "other browsers should not be relevant". Wtf is your comment, honestly. Now, if you want to talk about Mozilla missing their money for US culture wars (Rep vs Dem) and issues unrelated to tech, then i agree. But technology wise, Firefox is a very easy case to make.