Firefox is on a slippery slope

Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by vertex-four on Saturday December 16, 2017 @02:13PM (#15941263)

Building a secure, fast, usable web browser is a near-impossible task on its own. Anything else they do involves a couple of orders of magnitude less effort. Mozilla would still need the vast majority of funding they currently get to do that.

The problem isn't that they're doing too much - it's that they have nearly no business model, and any attempt to create a business model appears to be selling out to users.

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Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by saas_co_de on Saturday December 16, 2017 @10:01PM (#15943777)

No. It is actually pretty easy. Just fork chromium, strip out the spyware, and add your own layer of features on top.

There are a lot of companies doing this now and Mozilla would be far more successful if they followed this model instead of trying to copy chrome's user experience on top of their inferior browser engine.

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Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by paulryanrogers on Saturday December 16, 2017 @11:02PM (#15944014)

Yet we also need variety in our engines. Otherwise it's IE6 all over again. Diversity makes us stronger.

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Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope by vertex-four on Monday December 18, 2017 @11:20AM (#15952692)

Then we get one company deciding which features should and should not be available to a web page.

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