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Post by DamnInteresting »

alberth wrote: post #25

Dumb question: who’s Firefox target user? Chrome is able to capture the mass consumer market, due to Google’s dark pattern to nag you to install Chrome anytime you’re on a Google property. Edge target enterprise Fortune 500 user, who is required to use Microsoft/Office 365 at work (and its deep security permission ties to SharePoint). Safari has Mac/iOS audience via being the default on those platform (and deep platf…

> Dumb question: who’s Firefox target user?

These days, it seems to be people who:

* Don't want to be using a browser owned by an ethically dubious corporation

* Want a fully functional ad blocker

* Prefer vertical tabs

Re: Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo

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Post by 0x000xca0xfe »

lalaland1125 wrote: post #67
ecshafer wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And people don't have to all agree on the same things. People can get together to work towards cause X and then individually believe in mutually exclusive causes alpha, beta, gamma.

It's not really possible to do that when the opposing beliefs are so fundamental. Mozilla had, and has, a lot of LGBT staff. How could you expect those staff to work under and trust a CEO opposed to their very existence as equal members of society?

What's so fundamental about marriage?

I don't think childless couples (of any gender) should get any societal advantages yet I have no problem working with people that disagree. Why has everything to be black-or-white, left-or-right, with us or against us? That's not a productive way to think about others.

Re: Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo

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Post by TiredOfLife »

catapart wrote: post #20

> AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off. Welp. Starting off on the wrong foot. "AI should always be a choice - something people can easily opt in to ". Can't teach what there's profit in not learning, etc. Oh well.

Same with tabs, sandboxing or pop-up blocking. All of the features should be opt-in.

Re: Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo

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Post by TiredOfLife »

alberth wrote: post #25

Dumb question: who’s Firefox target user? Chrome is able to capture the mass consumer market, due to Google’s dark pattern to nag you to install Chrome anytime you’re on a Google property. Edge target enterprise Fortune 500 user, who is required to use Microsoft/Office 365 at work (and its deep security permission ties to SharePoint). Safari has Mac/iOS audience via being the default on those platform (and deep platf…

> Dumb question: who’s Firefox target user?

Partly me. It's the only browser where I can disable AV1 support to work around broken HW acceleration on Steam Deck.

Also tab hoarders. (I migrated to Chrome 3 years ago to try and get rid of my tab hoarding)

Re: Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo

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Post by homebrewer »

cies wrote: post #45
fidotron wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a semi Rust hater, but Firefox user, I believe Mozilla should go absolutely all-in on Rust, for a mixture of direct and indirect effects. That and/or launch an open source e-Reader development project. No MBA type is going to be able to do anything of the sort.

[flagged]

You've confused them with GNOME. The witch is out, she did not last long.

Re: Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo

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Post by homebrewer »

alexjplant wrote: post #61
cies wrote: post #45

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[flagged]

What sort? Inquiring minds and all that... like a "Good Witch of the North"? Or a Hermione Granger type? Or the kind that own crystal shops that serve tea from renewed storefronts in quaint coastal towns?

https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/24/holly_million_gnome/

Re: Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo

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Post by TiredOfLife »

bigbadfeline wrote: post #44
darkwater wrote: post #2

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So much BS and nitpicking isn't humanly possible to produce. We're looking at the work of corpo bot farms with deep pockets and deep experience in subversion.

But enough about the last 10 years of Mozilla leadership.

Re: Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo

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Post by TiredOfLife »

sam_goody wrote: post #71
wodenokoto wrote: post #17

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No, their millions of dollars dont come mostly from people wanting to support their browser. It comes from search ads on google.com

I agree that most of their money comes from Google (at least for now). But when you load their home page ( https://www.mozillafoundation.org ), the first thing you are greeted with is a banner that says they have raised over $6M in their last campaign alone. So, it seems that millions are being donated by users. The claim that most of those users want it to go to their browser is not supported or refuted by that page…

It's literally impossible to donate to Mozilla for Firefox.

Re: Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo

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Post by catapart »

summermusic wrote: post #82
catapart wrote: post #20

> AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off. Welp. Starting off on the wrong foot. "AI should always be a choice - something people can easily opt in to ". Can't teach what there's profit in not learning, etc. Oh well.

> AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off. Literally 5 sentences later: > [Firefox] will evolve into a modern AI browser…

Neat! I didn't make it that far. Nice thing about red flags is, there's no value in continuing after you see them. Turns out, the thing the red flag made me accuse them of was their stated goal. Case in point!

Re: Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo

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Post by coffeebeqn »

Larrikin wrote: post #73
bamboozled wrote: post #27

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Have you tried Brave?

It's good enough when some terrible lazy web designer only tested on Chrome. It does nothing to protect against the future when Google decides they are sick of people trying to get around their Ad Block ban and change the license because no one has any real alternatives anymore. Also blocking is not as good as intentionally poisoning with something like Ad Nauseum

What’s the current licensing mode? Can they fork their own version at that point in time and develop it open source ?
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