Mozilla Firefox Criticism

I'm afraid it's too late for Mozilla. It's not in their mission anymore.

The problem with Mozilla is that they dont care about their core product, which lost its unique proposition for customers (add-ons and customization) and is losing market share.If any other product lost so much market share, the CEO would be removed.Also those "fun" projects are career boosters for people involved, not something that makes firefox better. It even makes it worse, since fewer resources go for firefox.

Why do you say Mozilla doesn't care about Firefox any more?

Haha, "Mozilla, please commit suicide". Whatever they're currently doing is fine. They've succeeded in their aim and now they're searching for a new thing to target affiliated with their space given their revenue numbers. Pretty logical thing to do for them. Good luck to Mozilla.

After the browser took off, ignoring and missing things became the main objectives of Mozilla.Flush with Google money, the voices of highly technical people with a mission were overpowered by the voices of professional non-technical people with an agenda.I'm not even getting into the woke stuff, but Mozilla saw themselves as the "Open [insert new stuff]" stewards. They saw companies constantly building moats and ( understandably ) wanted to create an "open" alterna

Don't hold your breath, it's Mozilla after all. They're king of shooting themselves in the foot to pursue trends.

If you read some of the old HN threads when that happened, there were a few takes on Mozilla. One is that they lost the browser war, so they should cut their losses (like with Thunderbird) and move on. The other was that they underinvested in what their supporters care about (the browser) and were distracted by things like Pocket. Mozilla is also in a different situation than a spun-off Chrome; Chrome would be a market leader with licensing deals.

If I had to hazard a guess:- The HN crowd were likely burned the hardest by Mozilla's continued dumbing down of the browser (you'll reliably see complaints about how it seems like new releases always remove or move things needlessly)- Firefox is de facto a Google project. If Google says jump, Mozilla says 'how high' because Google holds them at budgetpoint.- Mozilla's stewardship of Firefox has been abysmal. A history of unforced errors, with a result of a compl

I'm a Firefox use, and while I agree Mozilla neglected it, I think leadership saw the writing on the wall that they're at best the #4 player after Chrome, Safari, and Edge, and they decided to branch out in search of new lines of business. It turns out there isn't a story there (and probably never was--this was a desperation move), and now they're left with Firefox in an even worse state.

Firefox is the product of Mozilla mission. But mission is larger than just a browser. I'd love to see it extend to trusted email services and search engines, for example, but this requires a lot of engineering.If I understand this right, Mozilla tried to focus on FF only, and that didn't pay back. User base is still declining (in relative numbers), revenue stream gets narrower. So Mozilla is trying to transform itself from a browser vendor to a true user agent, assisting the