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The numbers for Firefox just no longer justify any form of real testing or investment. There’s a subtle, but real, event horizon when a platform is no longer bi

The numbers for Firefox just no longer justify any form of real testing or investment. There’s a subtle, but real, event horizon when a platform is no longer big enough to have any external buy in and then the collapse accelerates. The old CEO spent years taking millions of dollars from Google that they pocketed personally with an outrageous pay package. Then Google called them up to testify in the anti-trust suit - which all smart Mozillans knew was the plan all along - keep Mozilla on a leash until needed to fight antitrust. Once the CEO did their job for Google they quit, it was insane. Such blatant greed and self interest ruined not only Firefox but the web with it. Baker is a true villain.

dralley 3y ago
The railing in the 2nd half of your comment is completely absurd. The DoJ referenced Mozilla directly multiple times throughout the suit they filed, of course Mozilla was going to end up testifying in the lawsuit. They were not "called up by Google". And the decline of Firefox was well underway before Baker even became CEO. It was basically inevitable once they were up against the 3 richest tech companies on the planet (Apple Google Microsoft), each with their own platforms under their control and marketing budgets that Mozilla could never hope to match. It blows my mind that people can look at how Chrome shoved their way into tens of millions of systems by paying off Adobe, Oracle, AVG, Avast and so forth to have their installers dump Chrome on people's systems and make it their default browser using pre-checked checkboxes - or how Google gave themselves free advertising on google.com by targeting Firefox users with exclusive ads - and still conclude that it must have been some kind of conspiracy that involves one of the founders of Mozilla destroying it intentionally from within. I don't like her pay package either but you have to be delusional to think that had anything to do with Firefox losing marketshare, a trend which started a full decade earlier.

dralley 3y ago

The railing in the 2nd half of your comment is completely absurd. The DoJ referenced Mozilla directly multiple times throughout the suit they filed, of course Mozilla was going to end up testifying in the lawsuit. They were not "called up by Google". And the decline of Firefox was well underway before Baker even became CEO. It was basically inevitable once they were up against the 3 richest tech companies on the planet (Apple Google Microsoft), each with their own platforms under their control and marketing budgets that Mozilla could never hope to match. It blows my mind that people can look at how Chrome shoved their way into tens of millions of systems by paying off Adobe, Oracle, AVG, Avast and so forth to have their installers dump Chrome on people's systems and make it their default browser using pre-checked checkboxes - or how Google gave themselves free advertising on google.com by targeting Firefox users with exclusive ads - and still conclude that it must have been some kind of conspiracy that involves one of the founders of Mozilla destroying it intentionally from within. I don't like her pay package either but you have to be delusional to think that had anything to do with Firefox losing marketshare, a trend which started a full decade earlier.