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Reflections on One Year as the CEO of Mozilla

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Re: Reflections on One Year as the CEO of Mozilla

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Post by teleforce »

XorNot wrote: post #16
martinald wrote: post #14

Deary me. There is literally not one mention of any concrete product development or launch that I can see in that post. This reinforces my view that Mozilla doesn't really see itself as an actual product company. It seems to see itself as some sort of quasi NGO focussed on the internet. Which is sort of fine, but I feel they would influence much more of the web with better more popular products rather than policy dis…

What's weirder is Firefox should be rising in popularity. The world in general has been getting more interested in privacy and data breaches and it's the only modern unaffiliated browser that doesn't have an advertising and telemetry motivation.

Personally I'm longing for a new browser with focus on safety, security and privacy. Hopefully it will be written in Rust language or any other language with similar capability.

Re: Reflections on One Year as the CEO of Mozilla

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Post by craftinator »

teleforce wrote: post #81
XorNot wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's weirder is Firefox should be rising in popularity. The world in general has been getting more interested in privacy and data breaches and it's the only modern unaffiliated browser that doesn't have an advertising and telemetry motivation.

Personally I'm longing for a new browser with focus on safety, security and privacy. Hopefully it will be written in Rust language or any other language with similar capability.

Brave was good until they really started pushing their ad/cryptocurrency stuff. It's still okay in technical terms (they subvert a lot of telemetry, have good performance), but it just FEELS icky now.

Re: Reflections on One Year as the CEO of Mozilla

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Post by apostacy »

lolrepeatlol wrote: post #80
apostacy wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would assert that the exact opposite is true. Taking a strong stand in favor of users would increase their market share. Over a decade ago, one of the best things that Firefox did to compete against IE6 was to include a built in popup blocker that was on by default. Exactly the same criticisms were made. It was called irresponsible and disruptive, since so much revenue came from popups, and horrible flash-based ful…

Over a decade ago, it was also possible to start a new browser engine from scratch. Now since the web is so complex, it's virtually impossible to make one nowadays. I don't think you can compare the web of a decade ago to the web of now.

The problem is essentially the same. I did not say they should start a new browser engine. I think that if Mozilla was as willing to take risks as they were before, they would win over users. The difference is that before they were willing to risk annoying the big fish. Now they are afraid of upsetting Netflix or Google.

And I don't think they will be able to make progress if they refuse to challenge existing web technologies. They could do it, but they won't.

In fact, Mozilla seems terrified of losing favor with any of the major platforms. Which means that they are beholden to them.

Re: Reflections on One Year as the CEO of Mozilla

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Post by emerged »

I literally in my most honest sense of what is good and real in this world, don’t believe you could be the CEO of Mozilla in 2021 and have a decent and genuine, moral and ethical soul.

Unless you’re busy day to day removing people from the company in order to synchronize it’s supposed purpose with reality.

Re: Reflections on One Year as the CEO of Mozilla

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Post by KingHenryVIII »

sciurus wrote: post #39
tofuahdude wrote: post #18

Has Mozilla ever made any serious attempt at technical contributions to crypto?

What do you mean by crypto? I think we do lots of interesting work in that area. Heck, our CTO was the editor of the RFC for TLS 1.3. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/01/09/eric-rescorla-wins-... (Disclosure: I work for Mozilla but only ever tangentially on this)

Oh yeah.. Ekr... on whose watch Moz couldn't even keep up a functioning cert chain for Addons.

Re: Reflections on One Year as the CEO of Mozilla

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Post by KingHenryVIII »

kgraves wrote: post #42

This is what you get when you sell your soul to Google and rely on your competitors funding for years on end. And what does Mozilla of today have to show for it? A self aggrandising, navel-gazing, tone deaf, hollow templated puff piece which will cause the unfortunate inevitable sad downfall of Mozilla. There is almost nothing left of this once innovative company, resorting to present a facade as a cover while ignori…

Strong narcissism signals in her post. "It's all about me." The problem with her as CEO is about the incentives. She has literally no incentive to do anything other than continue to use the company as a vehicle for her social concerns. Building great products is a complete afterthought.

Re: Reflections on One Year as the CEO of Mozilla

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Post by CodeGlitch »

craftinator wrote: post #83
teleforce wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personally I'm longing for a new browser with focus on safety, security and privacy. Hopefully it will be written in Rust language or any other language with similar capability.

Brave was good until they really started pushing their ad/cryptocurrency stuff. It's still okay in technical terms (they subvert a lot of telemetry, have good performance), but it just FEELS icky now.

Brave user here. You can turn all the crypto stuff off and ignore it. If that's the way Brave is funded then I really don't mind them pursing that route. It's better than depending on Google at least.

Re: Reflections on One Year as the CEO of Mozilla

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Post by CodeGlitch »

rivn wrote: post #59
8458e112e7b2 wrote: post #15

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Not only that, they do have their other priorities figured out also: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2021/01/08/we-need-more-than-d... I am actually glad that they came out and put that in black and white. Got me to move to another browser. (I do miss Firefox's multi-container tabs and account containers however but I will survive).

with chromium/ungoogled chromium/maybe other derivatives, you can put multiple browser profiles to ~/.config/chromium and add --profile-directory="xxx" to exec path

Braver user here: I can add multiple profiles through the GUI - which I use to separate my Google usage from my general internet usage. Is this not supported by base Chromimum?
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