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Mozilla has been circling the drain for some time now. by Gently masturbated by a Chrome dev 02/25/2016, 12:09am PST
Chrome is more popular? oh shit, we better make our browser look like chrome, having a start page with annoying square start panels for websites, tabs at the top of the screen instead of menus, and so on.

Chrome doesn't have browser extensions? We better get rid of them too, except for shitty Javascript shims which can't do anything that a site with an IFRAME and some Javascript couldn't do.

Mozilla blew millions on trying to create a new operating system for mobile phones called Firefox OS. Of course it never worked well, because it was based on HTML5 and Javascript, a combination which is way slower and more power-hungry than any of the competing technologies. Even if it had worked well, nobody wants a new OS with no applications.

Meanwhile, Mozilla killed its email client, Thunderbird, something that at least a few people liked and used.

Mozilla has been trying to position itself as the principled choice, "standing for the open web." But every time a big choice comes up where they have to choose between their own interests and the open web's, they chicken out. For example, they added support for patented H.264 video decoding, after saying that web standards should never include patent-encubmered codecs.

I definitely agree that firefox is crashy and weird compared with any of the major alternatives. It's like everyone else on the road is driving a modern car, and you're driving a vintage Ford Pinto. Every time you shift, the transmission shudders like it's going to fall about. If you drive more than 50 miles per hour, it sounds like you're in a wind tunnel and the windshield rattles.

The best case scenario at this point is that a few years from now they are remembered as a company where some of the early Rust developers worked.
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Is Firevox just the worst browser right now? by fabio 02/12/2016, 1:38am PST NEW
    FOX NT by Mulder 02/12/2016, 1:50am PST NEW
    Fx continues to bleed out by Expired NSCP Options 02/12/2016, 2:28pm PST NEW
    I hope Brave shits all over FF by Entropy Stew 02/12/2016, 4:58pm PST NEW
        No way. That guy called his new browser "Brave"? by Kenji Carter 02/12/2016, 7:38pm PST NEW
            Brave First Impressions by Free QA, uh no, Customer Engagement 02/12/2016, 9:56pm PST NEW
        as we learn from FF, the problem with letting Mormons develop a browser by Ray of Light 02/24/2016, 6:43pm PST NEW
            RIP XUL by WebKit Forks EVERYWHERE 02/24/2016, 10:48pm PST NEW
                Mozilla has been circling the drain for some time now. by Gently masturbated by a Chrome dev 02/25/2016, 12:09am PST NEW
                    I'm hoping Servo replaces it in 5 years by Gently Masturbated by a &mut T 02/25/2016, 3:05pm PST NEW
                        They just added GPU accel and its running at hundreds of fps by Entropy Stew 02/27/2016, 5:08pm PST NEW
                            Ok, that's slightly more promising by Mysteriozilla 02/27/2016, 8:00pm PST NEW
    and Netflix! by fabio 02/14/2016, 11:10am PST NEW
    Firefox finally kicked the bucket by fabio 06/22/2016, 2:42am PDT NEW
    Re: Is Firevox just the worst browser right now? by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/26/2016, 3:05pm PDT NEW
    Holy shit FF 57 is actually fast by Entropy Stew 09/27/2017, 9:08pm PDT NEW
        No longer turn based? NT by O....= 09/27/2017, 9:42pm PDT NEW
    Wiped my toolbar settings so it replace it with "Firefox screen capture" icon NT by had to reinstall -fabio 10/15/2017, 1:44pm PDT NEW
    NOT ANY MORE BABY NT by SUPERFAST! 11/21/2017, 1:56pm PST NEW
    Now here is how Edge is pissing me off by fabio 12/09/2017, 9:33pm PST NEW
 
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