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Re:Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla by pygy_ on Thursday January 21, 2021 @08:53PM (#25867263)
It became clear to me with the recent layoffs.

Their strategy to grow their user share seemed twofold: better tech (through Servo/Rust) and dev-oriented features (their market share among devs was much higher than among the general population).

They cut deeply into both of these.

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Re:Support for the IPFS Protocol – Firefox Bugzilla by pygy_ on Friday January 22, 2021 @01:43PM (#25874670)
Adding to this: Getting back dev mindshare was IMO critical for their success.

90% of https://webcompat.com/ is sites that are broken in Firefox, not necessarily because FF isn't standard compliant, but because many Web devs just dont bother testing their sites/apps with it anymore.

As for better tech I suppose they chose a 80/20 approach, but I'm not sure it will suffice.

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