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Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y... by CamouflagedKiwi on Monday February 14, 2022 @02:50PM (#30337290)
The last thing Mozilla needs is to spend more time pretending they're a big tech company and can compete with those guys. They should focus on Firefox (as GP said), not build a communication platform that will then fail versus Signal/WhatsApp/Hangouts/Teams/etc.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y... by selfhoster11 on Monday February 14, 2022 @03:22PM (#30337741)
Yup. Someone else will likely do a better job building those. Mozilla's (and only Mozilla's) core competency is browser building, and they should stick to it. Anyone can build a communicator, but building a full browser engine is becoming a forgotten skill.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y... by ASalazarMX on Monday February 14, 2022 @03:25PM (#30337781)
The decline of Firefox started with Chrome's JavaScript engine, who was years ahead of Firefox's performance. The focus on JavaScript-heavy websites was already growing, and Firefox was slow to catch up.

Now they're about the same performance-wise, but the mind share lost was brutal. there was a period that the only advantages Firefox had over Chrome were memory use and extensions, and they had to get rid of the NPAPI extensions for security reasons.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would y... by zerocrates on Monday February 14, 2022 @07:41PM (#30340898)
The basic problem for Mozilla is they poured a ton of effort into improving performance and marketed that heavily... and they basically didn't gain back share at all.
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