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by hiou
4144 days ago
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I upvoted you to get you out of the grey because I didn't feel like your comment was too inflammatory and did bring up specific issues which are relevant in a big picture view to this change. That said, the CEO comment was a bit unproductive. One thing I would like you to consider is that Firefox has to maintain a certain marketshare in order to continue to serve their mission. Which includes fighting for web standards and other things outside directly working on the browser/phone os. Unfortunately, that causes them to serve the larger market than what you or I might enjoy. I'm definitely not a big fan of the dummification trend in UX right now(which most of your complaints seem to stem from), but I'm sure it's just that, a trend, and we'll see some of the more ridiculous parts of that trend move back toward the middle soon enough. Design trends are like the weather, if you don't like it now, just wait a bit and it will be sure to change. So, hopefully you can cut Mozilla a little slack as they have a many headed dragon to feed and that set of compromises will leave everyone a bit hungry, but on the whole I feel more comfortable depending on Mozilla than the alternatives of Apple and Google. |
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I thought about leaving it out because it wasn't a technical issue, but being honest, it was one of the bigger disappointments I've had with their project, so it seemed important to include it.
I know all about the situation, and I also don't like how it was resolved (my disappointment was that it happened in the first place.) I also know others won't agree with me on that. But to me, it's a very important issue. I think ethics are absolutely essential for a CEO of a company.
> Which includes fighting for web standards
This is certainly one positive thing I will say about them. They have definitely helped advance good standards (HTML5, CSS3, etc.)
> Design trends are like the weather, if you don't like it now, just wait a bit and it will be sure to change.
I sure hope so. I've been backed into such a tight corner. I'm down to running FreeBSD with Xfce, and I'm already starting to write my own basic system utilities now (file manager, text editor, etc) because this trend is just accelerating so rapidly.