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They allowed google to push them around on some key things: - no addons on mobile for more than a decade! for nothing other than google-told-them-not-to. - mo

They allowed google to push them around on some key things: - no addons on mobile for more than a decade! for nothing other than google-told-them-not-to. - moving to webextensions because "google have a better standard for cross browser extensions". Broke all extensions for a long time and google did not honor their promise from day one (e.g. try to install flutter debug extension on firefox) - reverting features on devtools for no good reason or explanation (e.g. try to change code or update a variable value after hitting a break point on the debugger.) - No decent search on bookmarks. they keep adding and removing the keyword field. etc. - marketing. Like it or not, it is the reason badly informed people here, right next to this comment, claim it is slower. lol. marketing lies but it matters. q.e.d.

dblohm7 3y ago
(I worked at Mozilla for 9 years, including a couple in mobile engineering) > no addons on mobile for more than a decade! Huh? What are you talking about? > for nothing other than google-told-them-not-to. Google never dictated any product decisions.
- 1oooqooq 3y ago
  > > no addons on mobile for more than a decade! > Huh? What are you talking about? Oh, right, there was some five addons that were "allowed". How on earth could I have forgotten that for one decade we were allowed five addons! shame on me. All hail the benevolent mozilla overlords. > Google never dictated any product decisions. well, it was the official mozilla excuse (we have to prevent random code. we have to submit which addons will run for review on the store. etc). So it was either google dictating product decision or mozilla having other reasons and blaming google. One or the other.