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You better arrange for your suicide, because it seems inevitable. The terrible mismanagement of the Mozilla Corporation is to blame.
by ktjfi 8y ago
You better arrange for your suicide, because it seems inevitable. The terrible mismanagement of the Mozilla Corporation is to blame.
- bsaul 8y agoMismanagement : could you give some details ? I was under the impression that mozilla was doing quite amazing things on the contrary : keeping firefox the only really usable alternative to chrome (when even microsoft didn't manage to do it), and even innovating in PL space with Rust. What do you think they should have done differently ?
- stingraycharles 8y agoThey have made some weird decisions to include some marketing campaigns into Firefox once, and I believe the whole Pocket thing didn’t land well with many of their users.
- ktjfi 8y agoThey made the same mistake IE made: around Firefox 3, they allowed their browser to become terribly slow, and so Chrome ate their lunch. Because let's be honest, Chrome was and still is so much faster than Firefox, and that's why they won. You could argue that Chrome has infinite ad budget, and that obviously helps, but I'm a Google hater and I'd gladly use Firefox if it was better or at least on par with Chrome, but it's not. I understand fixing something like that takes a lot of effort, but they lost a lot of time and money in projects that had no chance of working out, such as FirefoxOS (really? making an entire OS using the slowest browser engine that there is on the cheapest ARM hardware they could find?), Hello, Persona, etc. They also abandoned Thunderbird, which I will never forgive, the same way I will never forgive Google for abandoning Reader. Servo is a nice project but the chances it will be abandoned after years in development are over the roof. So now they are focused on their privacy improvements, but they can't stop shooting themselves in the foot (sending your browsing history to the advertisement company Cliqz, remotely installing an addon to advertise the Mr. Robot show, installing Pocket by default...) Then, if it is slower, and they don't seem to be able to take my privacy seriously despite their claims to the contrary, why in hell should I use Firefox?
- dgzl 8y agoI really think Firefox's performance is better than what you're alluding.
- sergiosgc 8y agoOn Google properties Chrome is noticeably faster. Everywhere else, I'd wager Firefox is faster and less resource hungry.
- lucasverra 8y agoon my rMBP 13 late 2013, im on safari > ff > chr. Safari works pretty OK with G properties, except offline editing of docs
- newsgremlin 8y agoI switched about a month ago and I honestly couldn't tell a difference. The only thing people have to get over with Firefox is the browser controls and settings.
- ycombinete 8y agoWhen was the last time you checked/researched whether or not chrome is faster?
- ktjfi 8y agoA few weeks ago. Performance of Chrome is consistent: always snappy. Firefox on the other hand will turn laggy from time to time, especially when opening or closing tabs, when it sometimes freezes noticeably. It is also slower when doing DOM manipulations, and their developer tools are simply crap (MUCH slower, and with fewer features). But if they want to jerk off looking at how they reign in their synthetic benchmarks, who am I to disagree?
- jacquesm 8y agoMy 'synthetic benchmark' right now is FF with a few hundred tabs open in front of me. It works like a charm.
- imtringued 8y agoHow is Mozilla responsible for the actions of Microsoft? The reason why Microsoft abandoned their own engine is because they can't keep up with whatever chrome does. Firefox was never a choice because then they'd be stuck with turning a 10% marketshare engine into a 20% marketshare engine rather than making the 60% marketshare engine a 70% marketshare engine.