| There's a difference between criticism and harassment. Dishonest and incompetent aren't just mean words chosen at random, I used them for a reason. Power users aren't happy that Firefox has been doing nothing but trailing Chrome for years, actively making the browser worse for power users by weakening extensions, baking ads into the browser, wilfully refusing to permit opt-out of telemetry, and lying about revenue-sharing with Pocket. [0][1][2][3][4][5][6] Mozilla gave its CEO a raise of over $1m/year, from a starting point that was already over $1m/year, at a time when Firefox was losing usage share, while laying off engineers.
Mozilla did all this while congratulating itself for putting people before profits! [7][8][9][10] I still use Firefox as my primary desktop browser, and I really want to like Mozilla, but here we are. (As an aside, I see Pocket is finally going to be made Free and Open Source Software, which is good news. [11]) [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36841567 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24144137 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23391659 [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14754740 [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22616740 [5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10680925 [6] https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/17/mozilla-looks-to-its-next-... [7] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24569464 [8] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30723971 [9] https://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html [10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker#Negative_salary... [11] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_(service) |