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What's the pitch for those who currently use firefox?

by courseofaction 2y ago

Aeolun 2y ago
Something about only being a browser company? Mozilla is many things, but purely browser focused is not it.
- PedroBatista 2y ago
  I would say the browser it’s not even in their mind at this point. High level people inside Mozilla not only implied but said it directly.
  - ajrowls 2y ago
    Source for this claim?
  - nalinidash 2y ago
    Though,very recently,they are giving more attention to Firefox, or at least want us to see this way. For example: the reddit AMA on firefox unofficial subreddit[1],the mozilla connect post on things they are working on[2]etc. [1]:https://new.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1de7bu1/were_the_firefox_leadership_team_at_mozilla_ama/ https://new.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1de7bu1/were_the_f... [2]:https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/here-s-what-we-re-working-on-in-firefox/td-p/57694 https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/here-s-what-we-re...
beretguy 2y ago
Maybe they’ll add tab groups.
- nalinidash 2y ago
  They are currently working on it.
Sammi 2y ago
Finally get out from under Google's thumb. As soon as Ladybird is half as good as Firefox, then this is reason enough for me to switch. I've lost faith in Mozilla's leadership, and I believe the root cause is the Google money that they rely on.
- Barrin92 2y ago
  > As soon as Ladybird is half as good as Firefox That's never gonna happen without substantial funding because a modern, remotely feature parity web browser is a gargantuan project even if every developer is a genius. Chromium and Firefox sit at 30 million/20 million lines of code respectively, modern web browsers are basically operating systems. Mozilla doesn't rely on Google revenue because they love Google so much, they do so because they have hundreds of engineers to pay. A million dollars sounds like a lot but that pays for a handful of engineers for a year. That's not going to get you to 5% of Chromium or Firefox.

What's the pitch for those who currently use firefox?

Aeolun 2y ago

Something about only being a browser company? Mozilla is many things, but purely browser focused is not it.

PedroBatista 2y ago
I would say the browser it’s not even in their mind at this point. High level people inside Mozilla not only implied but said it directly.
- ajrowls 2y ago
  Source for this claim?
- nalinidash 2y ago
  Though,very recently,they are giving more attention to Firefox, or at least want us to see this way. For example: the reddit AMA on firefox unofficial subreddit[1],the mozilla connect post on things they are working on[2]etc. [1]:https://new.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1de7bu1/were_the_firefox_leadership_team_at_mozilla_ama/ https://new.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1de7bu1/were_the_f... [2]:https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/here-s-what-we-re-working-on-in-firefox/td-p/57694 https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/here-s-what-we-re...

beretguy 2y ago

Maybe they’ll add tab groups.

nalinidash 2y ago
They are currently working on it.

Sammi 2y ago

Finally get out from under Google's thumb. As soon as Ladybird is half as good as Firefox, then this is reason enough for me to switch. I've lost faith in Mozilla's leadership, and I believe the root cause is the Google money that they rely on.

Barrin92 2y ago
> As soon as Ladybird is half as good as Firefox That's never gonna happen without substantial funding because a modern, remotely feature parity web browser is a gargantuan project even if every developer is a genius. Chromium and Firefox sit at 30 million/20 million lines of code respectively, modern web browsers are basically operating systems. Mozilla doesn't rely on Google revenue because they love Google so much, they do so because they have hundreds of engineers to pay. A million dollars sounds like a lot but that pays for a handful of engineers for a year. That's not going to get you to 5% of Chromium or Firefox.