rvba

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1621.
by rvba 6y ago
When English is not your only language, then you basically have 2x the amount of articles thanks to the sidebar. What is the most irritating is that they dont make some sort of really persistent cookies to remove the irritating mobile view.
1622.
by rvba 6y ago
> Charities aren't innovation engines The unique selling point of Firefox (and especially: mobile Firefox) was ability to heavily customize it and use third party extensions. Those extensions were the ones bringing in the innovation
1623.
by rvba 6y ago
The loss of users happened when Chrome came out. At that time Firefox was eating tons of memory and getting buggy with more tabs open. Chrome was also marketed very aggressively by Google. Firefox partially removed those problems with later
1624.
by rvba 6y ago
> evidently focusing on their existing userbase isn't viable. I disagree. First of all: their strategy to ignore the requests of existing users in order to focus on some potential new users doesn't work. Firefox lost around 10
1625.
by rvba 6y ago
1) When I write about people working on Firefox I mean people fixing old bugs and working on the features that USERS want. Users are the most interested in the core product: the browser. They also want the browser to get the functionality t
1626.
by rvba 6y ago
Nearly all their "side projects" look like greenfields used by the project teams to boost their CVs so they can land better jobs. Those teams know very well that those projects have no use case, but they dont care. Foundation does
1627.
by rvba 6y ago
Mozilla had 1000 well paid people, maybe they should have tried to figure this out. But instead of focusing on their core product, like 50 people dealt with Firefox and 950 did various side projects that nobody used. I get it, hard projects
1628.
by rvba 6y ago
Because all those side projects are not made to make Firefox, or Mozilla foundation better, but to have nice greenfield projects that allow to boost CV and find a job elsewhere. All those side projects is the reason while Firefox is dying.
1629.
by rvba 6y ago
Can those numbers be trusted? https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/21/nobody-knows-anything-a...
1630.
by rvba 6y ago
Meanwhile Firefox alienates its current users by killing extensions and publishing an unfinished product.
1631.
by rvba 6y ago
I thought that "pre-booking" means that you input all the available data related to a document into some computer system, but you do not finalize & accept the document yet -> so some of the data can still be changed in the
1632.
by rvba 6y ago
When you have a browser that is USED by programmers, the programmers will know that their own site is bad. Problems started when it stopped being a browser for programmers and power users. They were the ones marketing it. Mozilla cut the br
1633.
by rvba 6y ago
Did you just write that Mozilla, a company whose core product is making a browser, should just stop making their core product since it is losing market share? Maybe they should start making cars, or washing machines. But you know what will
1634.
by rvba 6y ago
> if you want to do 1024*436 it is better to fire up a calculator You lose your history this way, while you can easily keep it in Excel.