For myself, I am moving off of Firefox right now (I don't yet know to what though, recommendations welcome) for one reason: they keep changing the UI in ways that I find irritating and then deprecating the methods to change it back. For me it's really that simple. There are other issues I have with FF but that's the one that got me to the point where I'm ready to abandon FF entirely.
> What would you do if you were in charge of Mozilla?
Concentrate on docs, standards, and libraries. Be the "one-stop shop" for all the information and software one needs to do things with the Internet.
> How would you save Firefox?
First you have to answer the question, why save Firefox?
What's so bad about having fewer browsers? (I know most of the arguments, I'm not asking you to repeat them I'm asking you to revisit them.)
Rather than saving one particular browser, I would make it easy for anyone to create a custom web browser.
If you really want to save FF you have to discover or create something about it that beats the competition: speed, reliability, ...? Those are "table stakes" these days, so what is the differentiator that makes it compelling?
Well there is also that Mozilla likes to proclaim how much they care about privacy but then keeps adding telemetry and a million of other ways that the browser leaks your data without any easy way to opt out (when it should ALL be opt in) not to mention the search deal with the anti-privacy devil. So I disagree that we have seen whether a focus on privacy is enough only whether privacy maketing without actually backing it up is enough.
For myself, I am moving off of Firefox right now (I don't yet know to what though, recommendations welcome) for one reason: they keep changing the UI in ways that I find irritating and then deprecating the methods to change it back. For me it's really that simple. There are other issues I have with FF but that's the one that got me to the point where I'm ready to abandon FF entirely.
> What would you do if you were in charge of Mozilla?
Concentrate on docs, standards, and libraries. Be the "one-stop shop" for all the information and software one needs to do things with the Internet.
> How would you save Firefox?
First you have to answer the question, why save Firefox?
What's so bad about having fewer browsers? (I know most of the arguments, I'm not asking you to repeat them I'm asking you to revisit them.)
Rather than saving one particular browser, I would make it easy for anyone to create a custom web browser.
If you really want to save FF you have to discover or create something about it that beats the competition: speed, reliability, ...? Those are "table stakes" these days, so what is the differentiator that makes it compelling?