Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products

Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by rrdharan on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @05:41PM (#24126346)

> Chrome only did better with regular users because 1) it was OS-bundled,

What OS bundles Chrome? Do you mean ChromeOS?

> and 2) they could shove "try Chrome!" banners at the top of every Google property.

That happened way later.

Maybe you have forgotten since it was so long ago, but the original wave of power users migrating to Chrome and bringing their non-power user friends along was exactly like the wave of folks who moved to Firefox. Chrome came out in 2008, had process-per-tab isolation and custom Chrome (i.e. window decorations, that's where the name comes from) that used less vertical space.

Your statement is revisionist history.

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by spanhandler on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @05:43PM (#24126378)

> What OS bundles Chrome? Do you mean ChromeOS?

Android.

[EDIT] and Chrome was better enough that it got power users switching (this is before "Google has become very obviously evil" was common geek opinion yet, which helped), but I'm not sure it would have gotten them installing it on normal folks' computers with quite the fervor we did Firefox, back in the day. The banner ads are what got them on normal people's computers.

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by tomc1985 on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @11:05PM (#24128237)

It was power-users. That process isolation thing was a big part of its selling point. IIRC they put out a comic strip touting how technically awesome it was

https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

edit... I'm sort of amazed the whole thing is licensed as CC

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Re:Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on comm... by Ygg2 on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @05:42PM (#24126363)

> What OS bundles Chrome?

Android.

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