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Re:Why Firefox has been in decline for 12 years by baybal2 on Saturday September 11, 2021 @12:50PM (#28493462)
> Firefox is a product strangely hostile to its core userbase. It's almost like they've been deliberately trying to sabotage themselves for years.

Easily explainable

Mozilla been captured by "aspirational" MBA types who think they don't really need that userbase, instead they want to chase "what big boys do", and copy lame features in hopes that monkeying Apple will score them iDevices users — the type of people they psychologically want to associate themselves with.

Re:Why Firefox has been in decline for 12 years by hypothesis on Saturday September 11, 2021 @02:28PM (#28494464)
People were commenting about acquisitions in other thread: some wouod be unexplainable ones, until you realize that management just wanted to hang out with hip/stylish/trendy people…
Re:Why Firefox has been in decline for 12 years by AwaAwa on Saturday September 11, 2021 @07:26PM (#28497069)
Judging from management's increased comp, while disappearing 25% of their staff, they can hang out with the Big Tech hispters without batting an eyelid.