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Mozilla Firefox is below PG&E threshold for support

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Re: Mozilla Firefox is below PG&E threshold for support

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Post by mrsilencedogood »

squigz wrote: post #6
anotherhue wrote: post #3

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Why are you sharing this on this post?

Just guessing, based on HN groupthink patterns:

1. that tax return shows the former CEO was paid almost 7M annually

2. sharing that on this post, they are probably insinuating that it was a mistake for Mozilla to pay their CEO that amount just for them to lose so much marketshare that they're now nearing an inflection point

The inflection point being where a negative feedback loop starts: FF loses marketshare, devs stop testing against it, sites break for users, users leave FF, FF loses marketshare, repeat

This post in particular shows that there are breakpoints where government and government-adjacent entities have policies stating that they test against all browsers with > some % of marketshare.

Re: Mozilla Firefox is below PG&E threshold for support

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Post by dist-epoch »

Google becoming the main funder of Mozilla was a brilliant strategic move.

Now the Mozilla CEO knows where the money and it's salary comes from, and they know what they need to do to please the funder.

Thus the Firefox usage stats shows a perfect downtrend line, just as Google would want it to be.

No words need to be spoken, but everybody understands what the game is.

Re: Mozilla Firefox is below PG&E threshold for support

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Post by weaksauce »

bandergirl wrote: post #5
jsheard wrote: post #4

Three of those browsers are just Chromium reskins, how are they supporting Chrome but not them?

“Support” means “actively testing and fixing bugs” This news doesn’t mean that it just will stop working in Firefox, it’s just that they don’t test and they don’t care.

i have seen websites that actively block you from using them unless you’re on a “supported” browser. it’s kinda nuts

Re: Mozilla Firefox is below PG&E threshold for support

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Post by mozempthrowaway »

squigz wrote: post #6
anotherhue wrote: post #3

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Why are you sharing this on this post?

I think it’s a reminder of what Mitchell’s priorities were as CEO: lining her pockets and funneling money to her political projects.

She has deep ties at Google and after getting out of the Yahoo deal when Verizon bought them, she got a sweetheart deal from Google that was an 84% increase of revenue YoY. She then laid off 25% of the company that year. This last year she ran a budget surplus as she failed to hire as aggressively as we had planned to at the beginning of last year and she still cut 6% of the company (for reference we were behind more than 60 hires for the year which is the amount that was cut). Meanwhile she took a pay increase to 6.9M

Re: Mozilla Firefox is below PG&E threshold for support

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Post by racl101 »

nullindividual wrote: post #10

I'm not sure why this was voted so high or would be news to anyone. It's a single website and historically this is nothing new (IE used to be the only supported browser on nearly all sites, or the reverse became true once Chrome had enough traction while IE development languished). Firefox is not that popular of a browser. Not news at 11.

Yeah, I was wondering about this. Who the heck is PG&E and why is it newsworthy if a single company doesn't support Firefox browser fully?

Re: Mozilla Firefox is below PG&E threshold for support

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Post by LAC-Tech »

lenerdenator wrote: post #14

What is it, 2008? What kind of exotic stuff is a utility company's public website doing that makes supporting an established browser engine impossible in 2024?

It's more a case of they don't bother testing using firefox. It may incidentally work on firefox, as a side effect of being tested in browsers that people still commonly use in the 2020s.
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