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by sciurus 2089 days ago
Keep in mind that the current CEO has been in that role for less than a year. The previous CEO led Mozilla from 2014 through 2019.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/08/29/thank-you-chris/

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/04/08/mitchell-baker-name...

(Disclaimer: I work for Mozilla)

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Sorry for a somewhat late reply. It’s interesting because on the whole that was the time I feel Firefox started a slow descent (with a few upticks here and there, like Quantum) . I have been an avid FF user since at least a decade.

I mean Firefox has been “there” , but it has and is on a knifes edge when it comes to capturing the hearts and minds of developers (now on chrom/ium) and the regular user.

I remember a real buzz after the demise of IE and and uptick in the early part of the decade.

While I love the FF blogs and privacy work you’ve been doing, it’s hard to get the non user back into the fold.

What I hope to see is a more involved model like Blender. Developers are missing features with the devtools is what I hear most when they dont or can’t switch.

For users, it’s different, I have now installed FF for a lot of people, but they often don’t even know they have choice beyond what was installed (Safari, Chrome, Edge) A more incentive based campaign might be great here, show how FF does thing better in many ways.