Re:Orbit. Mozilla's AI Assistant for Firefox
by BrenBarn on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @04:33AM
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You're right in a way. The problem is that Mozilla seems unwilling to accept that that's their audience, so they keep trying to appeal to the 95%. If they would just double down on the "power user" audience they could make a killer browser. But instead they alienate those nitpicky users with pointless UI changes, breaking extensions, and so on.
Re:Orbit. Mozilla's AI Assistant for Firefox
by manjalyc on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @07:48AM
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Ignoring 95% of a uniform market to target the 5% of users who all have niche and conflicting preferences is a ridiculous strategy for stability, growth, and profitability.
Re:Orbit. Mozilla's AI Assistant for Firefox
by dageshi on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @04:50AM
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I don't think there's any real future in catering to the most demanding users, most of which are completely unwilling to actually pay for a power user browser.
Re:Orbit. Mozilla's AI Assistant for Firefox
by grues-dinner on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @05:59AM
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To paraphrase an observation from politics: nerds fall in love, everyone else falls in line.
Re:Orbit. Mozilla's AI Assistant for Firefox
by yoyohello13 on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @10:46AM
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People just like to justify their choices. Whether it Windows or Chrome they will shout from the rooftops about how the open source/privacy respecting thing doesn't do X, but then totally absolve the massive company for doing another anti-consumer/anti-privacy thing. The conclusion is that privacy and software freedom are just not important to the majority of people.
Re:Orbit. Mozilla's AI Assistant for Firefox
by zargon on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @01:25PM
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> Meanwhile Chrome doesn't give a fuck what you think and does whatever it wants and people keep using it regardless.
As a Firefox user since 2002 who has never switched away, this part of the situation feels insane. People nitpick over Mozilla and decide they'd rather be steamrolled by Google. What?
But you notice in all these threads, everyone who theoretically ought to use Firefox comes up with their own little list of nitpicks that justify them not using it.
"I can't use it because I was disgusted when they dropped feature x"
"I won't use it because they spent their money on feature y instead of just doing z"
Meanwhile Chrome doesn't give a fuck what you think and does whatever it wants and people keep using it regardless.
Firefox is doomed to be left with the niche audience of people who ignore the 95% of what it does right to focus on the 5% that it does wrong.