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by bobajeff
3960 days ago
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I don't remember Firefox being well over 30%. The highest I've seen them had been 27%. That said I can see how users don't like Mozilla's attitude. I've actually noticed it as far back as Firefox 3.5. I know users didn't like the changes post Firefox 2.0. It's too bad Firefox wasn't componentized enough to separate UI from the layout engine and JavaScript engine. I myself like Australis but I'm also someone who's loved Chrome from the beginning. That said I think it was a mistake to turn Firefox into Chrome. They should've released Australis as a separate browser like they did with Firefox in the Mozilla Internet Suite days. That way they wouldn't have alienated so many users and their core user base would've been secure while they experiment with big user facing changes. These days I'm more disappointed in what they didn't add to the browser like built-in ad-blocking and tracker blocking. I understand they have this view that the web needs ads but that doesn't mean it needs third-party ad networks. Just like popups they degrade the user's experience. More importantly they also compromise the security and privacy of the user. Clearly they are a practice that should be fought against. That they haven't tells me they are no longer an advocate of the user but the site owners. |
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Try opening a private browsing window in Nightly and see what you get... ;-)
Edit: Here's a screenshot for folks without Nightly handy. http://imgur.com/5khKObb. This is still a work in progress, but we're getting there.