Re:Steve Teixeira, Mozilla’s New Chief Product Officer
by mickeyp on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @05:07AM
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You mean to say you can't build a competitive web browser with ~$500 million/year income?
Give me the $500m a year and I'll give it a punt.
Re:Steve Teixeira, Mozilla’s New Chief Product Officer
by paulryanrogers on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @09:11AM
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In this market and starting from a legacy codebase I don't think it's possible without literally paying people to use it.
My guess is it has more to do with browser development being an arms race. And Mozilla cannot just bank on its search ads, web ads, OS sales, office apps, or hardware to pay to keep up. And the biggest services all have and push their own browsers.
Think how much better Firefox had to be to unseat IE6. It was way better for years and still took a long time to gain market share. And it arose when the oligopolies were waning, often without their own browsers. Now most markets are cornered. And each big player has their own browser. (All largely based on WebKit.)