[I work for Mozilla; but don't represent them of course] On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 at 14:37, axel simon <[email protected]> wrote: > Regarding Firefox vs. Chrome, Firefox has been the only browser (with any > relevant market share) that isn't the product of a for profit company for a > while. While Mozilla have made questionable descisions at time (and outright > mistakes at others), that alone should be a strong argument to consider where > one gets their browser from.
Our mis-steps are often and painful - at least a few every year. But everyone's support - and constructive feedback - when we make them is what helps keep the ship on course. And of course actual users engaging with our browser and our service suite [0] keeps the ship sailing. [0] We are investing more in the suite of related services via a 'Join Firefox campaign': https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/join-firefox/ If you have gripes about Firefox; want to raise an issue or ask after the status of it - I can't promise I can make your desire happen but I can at least listen and pass it along. And if you're inclined to try to write a patch yourself I can try to mentor you or find you one. > I recall reading a statement in an article around Chrome's release about 10 > years ago by then-CEO Eric Schmidt explaining that at the end of the day, if > you want to be able to really control and see what users are doing, you need > your own browser. This was when people couldn't quite understand why Google > would build its own browser when Firefox had manage to end the Internet > Explorer dead lock and they had a good relationship. > That passage really stayed with me (and if anyone were to find it, I'd be > very greatful, I can't seem to do so). > > So yes, it's not that surprising that, when push comes to shove, the > engineering teams working on Chrome have to bow to the business priorities of > Google, the world's (more or less) biggest advertisement company. A similar reason is why I joined Mozilla. I have lots of friends at Google and Facebook and all they do all day is working to make the internet a better place. But the mechanism that enables them to do so often does not make the internet a better place. -tom -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable from any major commercial search engine. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://lists.ghserv.net/mailman/listinfo/lt. Unsubscribe, change to digest mode, or change password by emailing [email protected].
