![]() ![]() It makes no sense as all browsers look the same, feel the same and have the same functionality. There is such an aggressive tribal mentality with browsers. But people act like it is some sort of saviour that will bring them to the light. At the end of the day, it is just a browser and that is a personal preference. Can be considered objectively better than Firefox given its superior performance, equivalent if not slightly better resource usage, web compatibility and integration with the Google ecosystem (which the vast majority of internet population use (excluding niche tech circles)). The browser only has a 3.16% market share.Ĭhrome is a good browser. 32 MILLION people have STOPPED using Firefox in the past 4 years. You would think that everyone uses Firefox. Go to any browser discussion on the internet and 99% of the thread is "just use Firefox or Firefox is the best". The entire internet discourse is filled with "Chrome evil, use Firefox". I have said this before, but I will repeat again: Of the 4 major browsers developers only one isn't a billion/trillion dollar corporation one uses it's monopoly in search to bankroll and push it's browser, one uses their monopoly position in smartphones to force their browser on users and restricts the feature set of it's browser so as not to detract from custom App development, one threw in the towel and just rebranded Chromium, and the last is a non-profit that's financially dependent on the other three for handouts. You're trivializing browser development as if you could build a better browser in a weekend. > Fighting monopoly with an even better product that supports the ideology. > it doesn't support even the most basic features all other browsers have. What no-name mobile browser that isn't based on an engine like Chromium has implemented more "basic" features than Firefox? The fact of the matter is that large corporations like Microsoft have given up trying to implement their own custom browser engine and pivoted to using Chromium. > (that are available on even no name mobile browsers) It's non-trivial to implement and used very little. I wouldn't call backdrop-blur trivial or a basic feature. > Firefox can't even make basic web features like blur work on the browser ![]() ![]() TL DR: The focus of is primarily corporate and marketing at this point. These days, if you want technical content, you'll need to look at for "officially sanctioned" pieces, or look at the blogs that publish to for developer blogs (though much like blogging in general, there is much less traffic on there compared to a decade ago). Obviously as those developers moved on, those employee blogs have gradually died off. People who already had accounts on there were grandfathered in, which is why some people (Nick Nethercote's blog come to mind) still had blogs on there. I was told that this was because was being refocused as the "official" Mozilla blog. When I started at Mozilla a decade ago, my manager told me to file a request for my own space on - which was denied. The original was run very much like the old "MSDN blogs" from Microsoft (think Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing.) I think I can explain what you're seeing here. > I observed the change in tone in Mozilla blog posts, from experts talking about their craft to marketspeak. I'm the poster boy for an annoying Firefox advocate and I'm increasingly looking at selling my laptop to build a woodworking shed because it all feels hopeless. And now they're screwing around with another extensions menu that takes space on the toolbar but doesn't de-dupe with the extension buttons themselves (I actually can see where this Might be going, but again, zero clear comms about it). (Because, to be clear, I had a Firefox theme that was imperceptibly similar to this months ago before this Colorways upsell) Like wtf, you're gonna take back my color in a few months? Just pull the upsell for it? Why the hell am I having to wonder about any of this? Why on God's green earth was this done instead of spending any effort getting a SINGLE bit of unity among the Bookmarks, Downloads and Add-ons panels, all of which should behave at least rougly similarly. It's so stupid and confusing and baffling that I want to rage quit Firefox with this as the absolute last straw. Does it still have the cursed text with it that says "going away in (some month soon)".
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