Re:Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy
by ricardobayes on Friday February 09, 2024 @03:45AM
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Firefox is a pretty good browser, I wonder what caused people to switch.
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Re:Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy
by AnthonyMouse on Friday February 09, 2024 @04:35AM
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Firefox isn't the default browser on any of the popular consumer operating systems, so people don't need a reason to switch from it, they need a reason to switch to it.
Which Mozilla could provide if they'd spend more resources on Firefox and less on random tangents.
But now Google is doing their work for them by making Chrome worse:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/google-chrome-will-l...
Re:Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy
by Certhas on Friday February 09, 2024 @04:25AM
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Google ad campaigns, some years where Chrome genuinely felt snappier, Google pushing Chrome everywhere, Google sabotaging Firefox on their own websites.
Generally speaking, we have seen that people are okay with handing over the web and all their data to Google, if a button press registers 20ms faster.