It is in their business interest to ignore Firefox.

WarmWash 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Google is so internally fractured, and the factions individually are so powerful, that it's really only the chrome people who care about chrome.

If anything FF gets left out because usage is so low.

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oblio 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> If anything FF gets left out because usage is so low.

I've been following this for a long time. They were leaving Firefox out when its usage wasn't low.

Probably the typical backdoor executive mandate that led to death by "sprint prioritization":

Yes, we will for sure work on the Firefox compatibility bug, Dave-Open-Source-Enthusiast-Google-Dev.

But we can only pick up 10 bugfixing tickets this sprint and the ticket you highlighted, as the entire team agrees, is priority #12.

Death by slow asphyxiation.

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mattlondon an hour ago | parent [-]

I heard that Firefox is banned internally at Google (something-something-security) so Devs can't even test against firefox

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tvst an hour ago | parent [-]

Not true -- at least up to 2018 when I worked there.

	▲	mattlondon an hour ago \| parent [-]
		What I heard was more recent than 8 years ago, more like 6-12 months ago

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fl4regun 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Then they aren't doing a very good job of it.

>Firefox makes up about 90 percent of Mozilla’s revenue, according to Muhlheim, the finance chief for the organization’s for-profit arm — which in turn helps fund the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation. About 85 percent of that revenue comes from its deal with Google, he added.

https://www.theverge.com/news/660548/firefox-google-search-r...

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sva_ 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Hot take: Google keeps Mozilla/Firefox alive through the default search engine placement (which makes Mozilla millions each year) so they don't get designated as a monopoly with their browser.

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Vinnl 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

And of course they're doing the same for Apple/Safari, which wouldn't survive without the $20 million default search engine placement deal.

	▲	sva_ 38 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Apple forcing users to use their own browser/browsing engine doesn't disprove my argument IMO, virtually nobody outside the apple ecosystem uses Safari, and outside the apple ecosystem is something between 80-90% of internet users.
	▲	oblio 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> And of course they're doing the same for Apple/Safari, which wouldn't survive without the $20 million default search engine placement deal. Billion with a B, as in 10 zeroes, not 7.

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BbzzbB 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's lukewarm at most, doubt you'll find many people disagreeing here!

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static_motion 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That's not a hot take, that's just factual.