On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote: > I'm not saying we shouldn't strive for better, but I'm questioning the fact > that download size would be affecting our growth. If the download size > of our competitors is not affecting theirs, why would it affect ours? > (and again, the premise is an interrogation)
Who says it's not affecting their growth? Smaller download size is always going to be an advantage. Nothing magical happens at the point when you pass your competitors size. For example, for a user that already has Chrome but is curious to test Firefox, the download size of Chrome is effectively 0 bytes. And for a user that is determined to switch browser but is considering both Chrome and Firefox, if they try firefox first but they give up because the download is taking too long, at the point once they decide to try Chrome instead but realize that Chrome is going to take just as long to download, there's a risk that they'll stick with chrome because they are now already at the Chrome website. Or for a user that already has IE but would like to switch to Chrome or Firefox, but realize that both are too big downloads, might just give up and stick with IE. Any time that a user starts downloading Firefox, but gives up because the download is taking too long, is an opportunity where a smaller download could have helped. So I don't think we should focus too much on competitors download size. We should instead focus on our own funnel. / Jonas _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
