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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 TehCorwiz »

squigz wrote: post #23
mozempthrowaway wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 a…

I'm just confused as to what this has to do with the content of the post

Market share go down, pay go up, can’t explain that.

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

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Post by bragr »

hollerith wrote: post #36
whalesalad wrote: post #30

I've lived all over the US. Why are utility company websites SO BAD? All of them are terrible.

The good news is that it is rare for any of us to need to visit them.

Except that when you need to visit them, you almost always REALLY need it.

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

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Post by lolinder »

racl101 wrote: post #19
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?

You're getting dogpiled on for not knowing this, but it's a reasonable question. If you're not one of the ~5% of the US population (0.2% of the global population) that lives in the part of California indicated on this map [0], the only interaction you might have had with PG&E is when they sparked a forest fire that caused smoke to cover most of the United States in 2018 [1].

[0] https://www.pge.com/tariffs/assets/pdf/tariffbook/ELEC_MAPS_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Fire_%282018%29

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

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Post by mistrial9 »

pengaru wrote: post #39
whalesalad wrote: post #30

I've lived all over the US. Why are utility company websites SO BAD? All of them are terrible.

> I've lived all over the US. Why are utility company websites SO BAD? All of them are terrible. Utility companies are deliberately regional monopolies, without the threat of competition there's no incentive to do better. That's presumably reflected in but not limited to the quality of their web sites.

In California, PG&E refused to hand over legally-required documents, in addition to refusing to hand over ordinary information that they were not required to hand over. Subsequently, a pipeline in San Bruno (updt) area exploded, a dozen houses burned to the ground, and several people died. They established new legal precedent by being convicted of Murder One.

investigations subsequently determined that PG&E had falsified reports, and failed to conduct testing that was required by law.

Next, the Tubbs fires. "do better" ??

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

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Post by FredPret »

whalesalad wrote: post #30

I've lived all over the US. Why are utility company websites SO BAD? All of them are terrible.

It doesn't reduce their income to have a bad website, and might save them a bit in dev costs (maybe not though? if not, there's an opportunity to sell them on better sites)

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

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Post by Cerium »

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?

Their website is SO SO bad. It is almost like they don't want you to easily be able to see your bill and investigate the rates. The only part of the website that is easy is making payments.

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

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Post by nozzlegear »

mozempthrowaway wrote: post #18
squigz wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 a…

Has she said anywhere that those were her priorities, or is that just conjecture? People on HN seem to forget that she was the CEO of Mozilla, not Firefox LLC, and Mozilla’s goals have long been broader than just providing life support to a browser that continues to grow more irrelevant every year.

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

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Post by anotherhue »

unethical_ban wrote: post #13
anotherhue wrote: post #3

[flagged]

Do not post inflammatory comments without elaboration or context. Your comment should not be a puzzle that the reader should have to solve.

If that comment is inflammatory for you then I suggest you recalibrate.
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