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How Mozilla Ruined Firefox (invidious.lunar.icu)

submitted 1 year ago by spez@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] OfficerBribe@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dislike the video format, but all the points seem valid, Mozilla has definitely taken a lot of questionable decisions and Firefox has not been their main focus for quite some time.

Do not care much about privacy myself as far as Google and other generic tracking is concerned, I just like the add-ons and certain features in FF when compared with Chromium based browsers so that is still my main browser for personal use. For work I prefer to use Edge.

Let's see if Mozilla will use opportunity that Chromium browsers soon switching to Manifest V3 will provide with their future gimped adblock add-ons. Or maybe they will just do a similar change on FF side soon.

[–] drkt@feddit.dk 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let’s see if Mozilla will use opportunity that Chromium browsers soon switching to Manifest V3 will provide

Considering that FF has not leveraged its opportunity to implement JPEG-XL ahead of Chromium, I doubt it, considering how simple and easy of a W that would've been.

[–] jasory@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn't Chromium drop support for it?

[–] drkt@feddit.dk 1 points 1 year ago

It never supported it, afaik. They were talking about implementing it, but the creator of webp used his sway to shut it down. Firefox followed suit stating the same dumbass reason: "Not enough industry interest". There was plenty of industry interest, it was just Google didn't want a competitor to WebP. Safari announced they would implement JXL support and now we're here. I hope Google and Mozilla get the message.