Firefox used to be on top of the world with almost a third of all internet users using Firefox. These days, they make up a pitiful 2.7% of the market share. What happened? In this video, I want to show how Mozilla's terrible management and decisions have brought this once beloved browser down.
How to make Firefox private: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr8UFJzpNls
Web browser tier list: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5r6jFE8gic
Why I still use Firefox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0SJFED5xK0
Credit to @BryanLunduke for his video talking about the finances of Mozilla: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KDcxSZDang
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Sources:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/websites/
https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2021/mozilla-fdn-2021-fs-final-1010.pdf
https://www.fakespot.com/privacy-policy
https://getpocket.com/en/privacy/
https://www.zdnet.com/article/sources-mozilla-extends-its-google-search-deal/
https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4387539/firefox-money-investigating-the-bizarre-finances-of-mozilla
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/b-itch-to-boss/
https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/11/21363424/mozilla-layoffs-quarter-staff-250-people-new-revenue-focus
https://twitter.com/lizardlucas42/status/1293232090985705478
https://www.polygon.com/2013/7/5/4496512/why-nintendos-satoru-iwata-refuses-to-lay-off-staff
https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1217512049716035584
https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2018/09/26/eucodeondisinfo/
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/the-dsa-is-not-a-justification-for-censorship/
0:00 The fall of Firefox
1:34 Privacy promises
3:45 Why use Firefox, anyway?
4:42 Deals with the devil
7:08 Big business
8:24 Making the world a better place
9:54 Mozilla doesn't care about you
11:29 Firefox (lack of) Focus
12:02 Mismanaged funds
13:12 What happened to Firefox?
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/3346046
Firefox used to be on top of the world with almost a third of all internet users using Firefox. These days, they make up a pitiful 2.7% of the market share. What happened? In this video, I want to show how Mozilla’s terrible management and decisions have brought this once beloved browser down.
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What happened? Chrome happened with massive marketing from Google, it’s amazing Firefox held on like it has.
Hopefully Firefox can make a resurgence, but they don’t have Google money
I’d be among the first to agree that Mozilla has made a lot of bad choices, but this video doesn’t cover the important ones, whines interminably about some trivial ones, and generally says very little that’s of interest. And I’ve already seen it linked to like 3 times on lemmy.