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1 - Battery life. Their last big win was "now only as bad as Chrome, which is still pretty bad!" and that was a while ago. 2 - Resource use more generally. One shitty tab shouldn't make my whole system slow, even outside the browser. Safari (as with the battery life thing) manages this better than the rest. Do that. Those two are basically table-stakes to get me back to thinking about using it regularly. 3 - I gather from this thread that they collect "telemetry", including mouse movements, on an opt-out basis. We used to call that, unequivocally, spyware. No. Stop. I don't care that a bunch of ad salesmen made this normal, it's still gross. 4 - Better in-browser performance (separate from not junking up my whole system, performance-wise, as in #2) 5 - I think to be compelling, they either need to slim way down, or bulk way up, feature-wise. Either laser-focus on being the light, slim, simple browser that FF hasn't been since like the mid '00s, or integrate more Internet protocols to try to break us out of this crappy local maximum. New social protocols (Mastadon?), maybe pick one of the old-school-web protocols and run with that. Maybe IPFS. Something. Probably several somethings, ideally supporting and enhancing one another. Give me reasons to want to use FF again, either because it does things nothing else does, or because it's lightning fast, has a postage-stamp memory footprint, and is easy on my battery. Notably, I think, the fat-FF route is also a pretty damn clear route to monetization, which they seem to want. I fear they've missed their chance for that, though, and the time to start was at least 5 years ago when they had a huge headcount and lots of money. |