Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y...
by missedthecue on Monday February 14, 2022 @01:45PM
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Cutting organizational expenses might be good for unrelated reasons, but I don't see how that increases the market share of Firefox, and I can think of a few ways it could decrease their market share.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y...
by godshatter on Monday February 14, 2022 @03:31PM
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My goal, if I were CEO, would be to reduce organizational expenses (and increase other forms of revenue) to the point where the 100s of millions of dollars from Google ($562 million in 2017) was not required for covering the cost of firefox development and spend all those millions on advertising firefox until Google stopped giving it. I can't see where having such a large part of your finances coming from your biggest direct competitor could ever be a good thing, but at least spending it on increasing firefox's market share directly through advertising would have a certain irony associated with it. At least of the Alanis Morisette variety.
Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y...
by readthenotes1 on Monday February 14, 2022 @01:55PM
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What he said was: get rid of the people who are not interested in making the Firefox browser better. Get rid of the distractions. Focus on the browser.
Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y...
by bonestamp2 on Monday February 14, 2022 @01:48PM
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I guess the idea would be to only cut organizational expenses that aren't serving the purpose of increasing firefox market share.
Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y...
by selfhoster11 on Monday February 14, 2022 @01:53PM
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If the goal is to plow all available resources into Firefox, then cutting down on expenses that don't directly or indirectly support the existence of Firefox seems key.