| ▲ | noir_lord 5 hours ago | |
Indeed if those graphic designers hadn't been wasting time drawing a cute fox they'd have been waist deep in 15 year old code fixing bugs. Orgs can do multiple things at the same time. | ||
| ▲ | latexr 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
> Indeed if those graphic designers hadn't been wasting time drawing a cute fox they'd have been waste deep in 15 year old code fixing bugs. That’s not the criticism I’m making. > Orgs can do multiple things at the same time. Of course they can. But they should also prioritise—allocating money and resources appropriately—and Mozilla has for far too long not prioritised Firefox itself. That’s the issue. If people felt Mozilla were a good steward of Firefox, they wouldn’t mind most of the tangential stuff they do. The issue is that Mozilla has a history of getting distracted with irrelevant side projects that go nowhere and are summarily abandoned (meaning they were a waste) while Firefox doesn’t get as much attention as it could and should. One sentiment I often see on HN is “I would like to donate to Firefox but Mozilla only lets you donate to the organisation as a whole, and I don’t like the other things they’re doing”. Unlike every other major browser, Firefox is the main product of its parent company. It should be the best at what it’s for, yet far too often I see people saying they use Firefox not because they prefer it but because it’s not from Microsoft/Google/Apple. | ||
| ▲ | miroljub 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
> Orgs can do multiple things at the same time. In principle this is true. In the concrete case of Firefox, they have proven they focus more on side quests than on making a quality browser. I lost any hope they'll go for technical excellence instead of virtue signaling and branding after the Brendan Eich disaster. They feel now like a Microsoft, Google, Apple, or any other big corp. I used Firefox since it was called Firebird and finally gave up and switched to another (non big corp) browser and couldn't be happier. | ||
| ▲ | greatgib 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Maybe the point is that if they were so useless that they could waste time doing that, we could have fired(/not hired) them and instead hired a developer to improve the product... And at the same time, the dev already paid by Mozilla that could have been fixing the product, was busy updating the source code to update the mascot... | ||