Say Hi to Kit • Hacker News Board

Re: Say Hi to Kit

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Post by chrismorgan » Thu, Nov 06, 2025, 2:07 PM UTC

I pressed the “play animation” button, and the fox disappeared and nothing else happened. If I hadn’t had video autoplay disabled, the fox would just not have been visible in the first place.

> Media resource https://assets.mozilla.net/video/kit/pop-up-800.webm could not be decoded, error: Error Code: NS_ERROR_DOM_MEDIA_FATAL_ERR (0x806e0005)

> Details: auto mozilla::MediaChangeMonitor::CreateDecoderAndInit(MediaRawData *)::(anonymous class)::operator()(const MediaResult &) const: Unable to create decoder

Unfortunate.

(firefox-nightly, Linux.)

Re: Say Hi to Kit

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Post by jm4 » Thu, Nov 06, 2025, 2:08 PM UTC

Even with $400M in "revenue" gifted to them by Google, Mozilla can't muster even 4% market share. This project is dead. There is no path to increased market share. They have no viable plan to generate revenue beyond what they get from Google. Outside of features like container tabs, which only appeal to a small niche, they don't have much going on. The browser has dramatically higher power consumption in an age where a substantial portion of internet users are on battery-powered devices, it is noticeably sluggish compared to the competition, it has a dated looking UI, there is an apparent void in leadership and development capabilities at Mozilla. Now we get a silly little mascot? Firefox will never regain the ground they lost. The sooner we realize it, the sooner we can get behind something else.

Re: Say Hi to Kit

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Post by malvim » Thu, Nov 06, 2025, 2:08 PM UTC

pluc wrote: post #10

Well at least there's no AI involved. Take your wins where you can

I saw it and immediately thought Clippy. I’m pretty sure this is indeed going to be AI-related somehow.

Re: Say Hi to Kit

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Post by TomMasz » Thu, Nov 06, 2025, 2:09 PM UTC

Cute, but I can't help but wonder if the resources used for this could have been better utilized elsewhere.

Re: Say Hi to Kit

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Post by agos » Thu, Nov 06, 2025, 2:11 PM UTC

the responsive layout is all broken on Safari. I know they make a competing browser, but come on...

Re: Say Hi to Kit

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Post by mythz » Thu, Nov 06, 2025, 2:12 PM UTC

Mozilla makes it really hard to root for them.

Re: Say Hi to Kit

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Post by AnonC » Thu, Nov 06, 2025, 2:12 PM UTC

I love this. It’s good to see Mozilla trying different revenue generating approaches (edit: the merch with Kit), even if they may seem too small compared to what it gets from the default search engine arrangement with Google.

Re: Say Hi to Kit

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Nov 06, 2025, 2:13 PM UTC

1718627440 wrote: post #17

latexr wrote: post #14

Finally! All these years everyone has been complaining about this or that missing feature or lingering bug in Firefox, or how Mozilla has been hostile to users and pulling stupid stunts which only waste money and alienate even their most passionate fans, but by far the number one grievance everyone had was how Firefox was missing a mascot. At last I can make my mother switch to Firefox. I’m messaging all my friends r…

I always thought Mozilla Firefox does have a mascot, which is well "the FireFox".

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Re: Say Hi to Kit

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Post by Ezhik » Thu, Nov 06, 2025, 2:17 PM UTC

Nice, glad they're actually adding more fox and not less fox. I remember that foxless rebrand they had to walk back a little, it was lame.

Re: Say Hi to Kit

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Post by Ezhik » Thu, Nov 06, 2025, 2:17 PM UTC

latexr wrote: post #14

Finally! All these years everyone has been complaining about this or that missing feature or lingering bug in Firefox, or how Mozilla has been hostile to users and pulling stupid stunts which only waste money and alienate even their most passionate fans, but by far the number one grievance everyone had was how Firefox was missing a mascot. At last I can make my mother switch to Firefox. I’m messaging all my friends r…

This but unironically.