[profeta]

can't agree more.

Feature with hundreds of requests gets shunned away. And things that people heavily opposes gets in just to be like chrome.

All the last features on firefox were corporate driven. Bookmark system by pocket. Video chat by Telefonica. Sync goals was probably to make their ad share revenue grow as now you are a logged in user. etc etc etc

Their most well paid dev is a javascript advocate!

Chrome gives you much less control of the web, but everyone uses not because it is fast, but because firefox is getting behind on everything. While the owners arguee about UI changes instead of doing what was successful in the past: put the patch someone already provided as an option and release!

the only interesting thing coming out mozilla nowadays that can change the world is fennec. the mobile version. But last builds on android cannot be completed without google proprietary apis anymore. and usability is crap now that they are trying to "fix" image viewing, which mind you, wasn't broken, it was just different than chrome.

[sanderjd]

> the only interesting thing coming out mozilla nowadays that can change the world is fennec.

A couple other interesting things they're working on: Servo[0] is a browser engine written from the ground up to take better advantage of multi-core computers. Rust[1] is a programming language that was originally created to help Servo achieve its goal of building a fast, concurrent, but secure browser, and has grown into a very interesting project in its own right.

[0]: https://github.com/servo/servo

[1]: https://www.rust-lang.org/

[mintplant]

> Sync goals was probably to make their ad share revenue grow as now you are a logged in user.

No, it was in response to user feedback. The portion of the userbase that wanted it to just work like a traditional account system was greater than the portion that wanted to mess around with syncing codes. I don't know where you got the idea that this change had anything to do with ads.