RE: https://social.vmbrasseur.com/@vmbrasseur/115922995190919975
Mozilla wants your input. Here's mine:
Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only:
1: Building THE reference implementation web browser, and
2: Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees.
3: There is no 3.
Mozilla should have NOTHING to do with AI. Nobody wants it. Stop forcing AI into every corner of every project because your VC-brained management have completely lost the plot.
@jwz Firefox market share is <6%. Zen is trying to port the much-loved features from the now stagnant Arc, but the result so far is clunky and I've returned to Arc because it's more perfect right now for how I work and play.
Mozilla needs a mission bigger than just a standards-based browser. It should be experimenting with new UX. Not Liquid Glass UI/UX, but Arc-like UX.
Perhaps they should be experimenting with AI, with the goal of making AI invisible to the user without boiling the oceans.
@jwz @n3bulous I can live without a new UX. I can even live with incomplete implementation of the standards.
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What I really miss is the independence. When Firefox was first airdropped into the public domain, legions of indy websites advertised it, for free. You literally can't buy that kind of enthusiasm and loyalty, but Mozilla sure knows how to piss it away.
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