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Firefox May Have Lost Up to 12% of Its Users So Far in 2021

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Re: Firefox May Have Lost Up to 12% of Its Users So Far in 2021

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Firefox (currently) has a setting called browser.compactmode.show which makes the UI more compact when set to true. You might want to check it out? Using this setting, tab bar plus navigation bar take up 72 pixels vertically for me.

They are on record that it will be removed "real soon now". Apparently "nobody uses it"

I did some searching and they seem to keep the about:config option:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1703254

Re: Firefox May Have Lost Up to 12% of Its Users So Far in 2021

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post #48

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> a bunch of projects so stupid and far from their mission/audience that they literally can and did shock a theater full of people into silence. I didn't hear about this. Care to explain?

It's what happens when decision makers are completely disconnected from their audience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmkHAlhCvWg

Ah. I made a mistake and mixed this comment tree up with a sibling[1] that threw Blizzard into the discussion.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27911924

Re: Firefox May Have Lost Up to 12% of Its Users So Far in 2021

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post #38

Mozilla's recent history should be (and probably will be at some point) a case study in PR. They had enormous reserves of goodwill, trust, and positive perception, and managed to squander all of that in a relatively short period of time.

Their pr has been bad, but their behaviour has been mostly good. Most of the controversies I looked into in detail were not portrayed accurately in the media

well, maybe if FF updates didn't seem to make it worse each time I'd be more inclined in believing you

Re: Firefox May Have Lost Up to 12% of Its Users So Far in 2021

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post #12

Mozilla's recent history should be (and probably will be at some point) a case study in PR. They had enormous reserves of goodwill, trust, and positive perception, and managed to squander all of that in a relatively short period of time.

another interesting case would be Blizzard Entertainment that company went from being beloved by nearly all to universally hated in under 18 months it has been astounding to watch so much destroyed so quickly

Blizzard's death has been far longer than that. Classic case of things moving slowly, and then the final straw hits the camel's back. The company has had game quality issues for a long time.
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