r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖A succinct description of what's wrong with #Mozilla
Maybe it's time to replace the entire board at #Mozilla
Clearly, the project doesn't have competent leadership or else there's no way that an org which receives enough yearly funding to launch its own space program is floundering
Chris Routh 🐰🕳️@cypnk while an interesting correlation, this excludes many other very relevant points that affected the Firefox marketshare. For example, Chrome was launched in 2008. In 2010 adoption started to take off, and the Firefox marketshare started to take a dive.
@cypnk Around 2012, Firefox performance started to get bad. It was slow and people noticed. This was the year I jumped to Chrome. (I came back to Firefox in 2018 because I found this changed, and that the visual skew that frequently happened on sites in Firefox was resolved.)
@Routhinator The linked article has many other issues. But in this specific case, I believe Mozilla's funds are being grossly mismanaged
Add to a series of spectacular leadership missteps:
- Appointing as CEO, someone who contributed to an (unconstitutional) proposition to ban gay marriage https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/03/brendan-eich-steps-down-as-mozilla-ceo/
- Mr. Robot tie-in marketing via unsolicited download https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/update-looking-glass-add/
- Laying off 250 people while Mitchell Baker collects a ridiculously large pay https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/08/11/changing-world-changing-mozilla/
Soul Dessin@cypnk I think another contributor is that Google is ramming new web standards for the crap programmers. The features are often broken and not available across platforms, but the idiots actually think that "it works on my computer" is an excuse.
The number of stores that I visit and have to figure out how large of a screen it was made on is nuts. All so that I can see everything or just click a button.
@souldessin Yup. It's turn-and-burn programming with no thought whatsoever to sustainability. And store owners don't care either as long as products sell, but there's a point of diminishing returns for terrible stores. Imagine how many sales are lost to cheap and fast rubbish
@cypnk I agree. I'm also taking that phrase for use in other confederations; it's perfect.
MOVING TO SALESFORCE.SOCIAL!@cypnk What can be done when the default web browser on every Android device is Chrome and it's the primary OS of the world? It's a shameful state we're in. There are too many people asking on a daily basis how to wedge in a Google application into their *Linux* install which steals all of their freedom.
Mozilla's board is certainly due to be replaced but there is such a bigger issue to be addressed here and it's as old as the browser itself.
@John I wish I had good answers to that, but it's a complex problem. Made worse by years of complacency during the IE vs FF era.
Mozilla objectively had a superior browser at the time and behaved as Microsoft did with Netscape and now they're playing catch up. It may be a matter of a third player coming into the scene, now that IE will also be Chrome-based
Maybe the next battleground won't be just the web, but streaming services and games. A new browser as a platform for interactive media
@cypnk i personally think their privacy focus might win the battle as there has to be a leak coming that makes people wake up... finally, hopefully? Maybe. They need to keep working on this and pushing forward.
@John Fingers crossed that enough people within the org wake up to what they really should be doing. Worst case, I see another foundation popping up to take their place