As Firefox turns 20, Mozilla ponders how to restore it to its former glory | TechCrunch
As Firefox turns 20, Mozilla ponders how to restore it to its former glory | TechCrunch
Exactly 20 years ago, Mozilla started shipping version 1.0 of its Firefox browser. At the time, you could download it or buy a CD-ROM with a guidebook
Exactly 20 years ago, Mozilla started shipping version 1.0 of its Firefox browser. At the time, you could download it or buy a CD-ROM with a guidebook
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AI and Pocket. Remove those and include Ublock by default and more people will use it.
If users have to disable 5 annoyances before even starting to consider moving over is really annoying. Most people will just go back to chrome
Nah, while the annoyances are there they are generally unobtrusive and most users wouldn't notice they've even there.
The real block to Firefox is out of Mozilla's hands. Google pushes Chrome aggressively via their search engine - users get prompted to download and use Chrome. This is monopolistoc behaviour and the only way to tackle it is anti trust action. Microsoft is doing the same with Edge and it's slowly growing market share as a result.
Sadly stopping that is not likely to happen. Maybe if Musk encourages Trump to continue the US case against Google, and/or the EU decides to wake up and regard browsers as important again.
All Mozilla can do is try and keep Firefox development going and keep the The organisation financially stable.