Firefox is on the brink of being dropped by the US Government
Firefox is on the brink of being dropped by the US Government
The Big Three may effectively be down to a Big Two, and right quick.
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Mozilla hasn't been putting any effort into making firefox a proper competitor despite their 400M+/year from Google.
They haven't pushed the envelope in any way, haven't invested in a Rust browser engine, haven't moved away from XUL, haven't fixed their oldest bugs, haven't made Gecko more easily embeddable, haven't added added better documentation to Gecko, haven't improved speed or memory use, haven't invested heavily in their android version (it's slow af on older devices), only just now are starting to enable extensions in firefox on android, ...
Their biggest changes are buying up a few useless startups (Pocket, some analytics company?), multiprocess firefox, manifest, containers, looking more chrome-like, firing 400 developers or something during COVID and paying their CEO 5M (?).
All they do is exist. The only reason people switch is because other browsers fuck up. IMO, that's not a strategy to get more users, but a strategy to collect the Google cheque.
Their ceo pay keeps going up. Even as their market share declines. And they're still entirely dependent on Google for revenue, who at this pint is basically donating to them to avoid more anti trust issues. It's a precarious system.