On 7/26/2017 4:27 PM, Steve Fink wrote:
it's a bold move that says we're willing to take the painful hit of pissing off addon authors and users
That has certainly happened...
But to make the sacrifice worthwhile, that means we have to *be* a high quality product. One with a competitive edge. Which means that people have a reason to choose us over the alternatives. And while we can and should look for other ways of doing that, via activity streams or privacy or Accounts or better tab handling, our historical edge has been extensibility and customizability. Firefox is sticky because people can make it do what they want, things that they come to depend on enough that they feel like they're missing out by switching browsers. (Even if people don't *actually* make use of it, knowing that the capability is there is powerful.)
Indeed. Many of the changes the last few years have left a lot of users asking "if they are just copying Chrome, why shouldn't we switch to that?" I think "extensibility and customizability" is what kept many people from doing so, and now some of that is going away...
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