Yes, of course a large number of people won’t talk about this in six weeks, let alone six months. On the other hand you’ll have ex-hardcore fans complaining about it for over six years. I still see people talking about the Mr Robot debacle and the other crap Mozilla has pulled to this day. If anything, Mozilla is more susceptible to this backlash than the average tech company. Regular computer users don’t give a rat’s ass about Firefox. The people Mozilla needs to convince are exactly the ones they keep alienating.
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HN is also not the only bunch of nerds like that.
This is Mozilla we’re talking about, though. HN is exactly the sort of audience they need on their side. That bunch of nerds is the same group they relied upon to evangelise for them during the IE era.
Firefox exists and reached its peak because of the people that idealogically cared about the Web and interoperable,security, privacy, etc who contributed to and advocated for Firefox.
It’s quite narcissistic how so many comments here are written with the premise that Mozilla is concerned with the author’s desires, and those of those that agree with them, above all others.
There’s also a lot of hubris implied in the assumption that there aren’t a large number of people that are just coming along for the rage-fest ride, and won’t care about this in 6 months.
Nobody here is special.