Re: Can the new Firefox Quantum regain its web browser market share?

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From	RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Subject	Re: Can the new Firefox Quantum regain its web browser market share?
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Date	2018-06-13 22:13 -0400

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On 2018-06-13, Dirk T. Verbeek <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> 
>> Answer seems to be "no."  Netmarketshare claims mozilla is now below
>> 10%, Chrome is over 60%,
> Google is laughing all the way to the bank :(
> The world needs more awareness and appreciation of privacy.
>> and lots of little stuff fills in the gaps
>> (Edge is at 4%).  Mozilla is dropping.

I don't disagree with you.  But Mozilla also needs to up its game.  Google
beat out Mozilla back in the day by ... building a better browser.  Firefox
may have caught up, but no one noticed because they were happy with Chrome. 
Worse, newer versions of Firefox alienated popular plug-ins and developers
didn't bother to keep up.  I lost "It's all text" and never got it back, for
example.

Firefox got fat, lazy, and sloppy in its glory days, and lacked the maturity
to keep laser-focused on its mission.  A real rookie mistake.

If Google's laughing, it's because the Mozilla foundation was so easy to
play for a fool.

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  Re: Can the new Firefox Quantum regain its web browser market share? Batchman <batchman@dosville.foo> - 2017-11-26 08:27 +1100
  Re: Can the new Firefox Quantum regain its web browser market share? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2017-11-26 13:11 +0000
    Re: Can the new Firefox Quantum regain its web browser market share? Johnny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2017-11-26 14:03 +0000
  Re: Can the new Firefox Quantum regain its web browser market share? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2017-11-26 19:57 -0600
  Re: Can the new Firefox Quantum regain its web browser market share? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2018-06-05 17:06 -0400
    Re: Can the new Firefox Quantum regain its web browser market share? "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2018-06-13 15:06 +0200
      Re: Can the new Firefox Quantum regain its web browser market share? RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2018-06-13 22:13 -0400

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