3 ms·

What do you think Mozilla should be doing to recapture market share from Chrome that they aren't doing now?

lukan 2y ago
Stop doing weird campaigns, or rather anything unrelated to building a browser. Rehire the servo team. Focus on the devs. There was a time, when firefox with the firebug plugin was the dev tool for the web. So people made sure websites worked in Firefox. But since quite a while, chrome dev tools are superior in allmost every regard and the ff ones unusable to me. Oh and let go of the expensive management. The one that openly talks about privacy, but ships FF with tracking and advertisment integrated by default. Stuff like this burned my trust. So I still use FF, because chrome is not better in that regard, but that is the only reason.
- jimjimwii 2y ago
  I'd also say they should listen to power users: allow any/custom add-ons and re-enable dev tools in Firefox for Android (like kiwi browser). A mainstream android browser with these two features would easily outclass chrome on android for most power users.
- MiguelX413 2y ago
  So you basically think they should stop trying to make revenue streams independent from Google.
Dalewyn 2y ago
[flagged]
Am4TIfIsER0ppos 2y ago
Revert to 3.6 and redo the last 15 years
binary132 2y ago
I honestly do not think Mozilla is fixable.
qzw 2y ago
If I were in charge? I would start by creating 3 (or more) editions of Firefox, segmented to casual, power, and pro users. Casual would be similar to the current Firefox, but with even more focus on ease of use, a “hand holding” mode, and more clarity and guidance when it comes to security and privacy. Power would have most hidden options exposed in UI, personalizations would be exportable/importable, extensions and user scripts would of course be treated as first class citizens. Pro would be fully customizable/optimizable for different verticals like medical, scientific, industrial, legal, engineering, etc. maybe a set of templates that can then be further customized, plus LTS with guarantee against random UI changes and ongoing testing against important sites/apps in each vertical. This is also where you could have a marketplace for high-end extensions or full on mods for the Pro edition. Pricing wise, Casual would be free, Power would be free with a donation of any amount or contribution of code/bug reports, and Pro would be $$ per seat per year, plus a cut of sales in the marketplace. That’s how I would start. I have lots of other ideas for longer term projects all focused on the browser.

Stop doing weird campaigns, or rather anything unrelated to building a browser. Rehire the servo team. Focus on the devs. There was a time, when firefox with the firebug plugin was the dev tool for the web. So people made sure websites worked in Firefox. But since quite a while, chrome dev tools are superior in allmost every regard and the ff ones unusable to me. Oh and let go of the expensive management. The one that openly talks about privacy, but ships FF with tracking and advertisment integrated by default. Stuff like this burned my trust. So I still use FF, because chrome is not better in that regard, but that is the only reason.

jimjimwii 2y ago
I'd also say they should listen to power users: allow any/custom add-ons and re-enable dev tools in Firefox for Android (like kiwi browser). A mainstream android browser with these two features would easily outclass chrome on android for most power users.
MiguelX413 2y ago
So you basically think they should stop trying to make revenue streams independent from Google.

Dalewyn 2y ago

[flagged]

Am4TIfIsER0ppos 2y ago

Revert to 3.6 and redo the last 15 years

binary132 2y ago

I honestly do not think Mozilla is fixable.

qzw 2y ago

If I were in charge? I would start by creating 3 (or more) editions of Firefox, segmented to casual, power, and pro users. Casual would be similar to the current Firefox, but with even more focus on ease of use, a “hand holding” mode, and more clarity and guidance when it comes to security and privacy. Power would have most hidden options exposed in UI, personalizations would be exportable/importable, extensions and user scripts would of course be treated as first class citizens. Pro would be fully customizable/optimizable for different verticals like medical, scientific, industrial, legal, engineering, etc. maybe a set of templates that can then be further customized, plus LTS with guarantee against random UI changes and ongoing testing against important sites/apps in each vertical. This is also where you could have a marketplace for high-end extensions or full on mods for the Pro edition. Pricing wise, Casual would be free, Power would be free with a donation of any amount or contribution of code/bug reports, and Pro would be $$ per seat per year, plus a cut of sales in the marketplace. That’s how I would start. I have lots of other ideas for longer term projects all focused on the browser.