I remember reading a lot this past year about Mozilla fretting about their market share and trying to figure out how to grow their user base. Did I hallucinate that? Cuz their actions lately appear to be driving users away. Are they taking notes from Google or is there some other MBA making these brilliant changes?
Mozilla Introduces Firefox’s First-Ever Terms of Use
Submitted 2 days ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world
https://linuxiac.com/mozilla-introduces-firefox-first-ever-terms-of-use/
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Lonewolfmcquade@lemmy.world 1 day ago
DigDoug@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Remember the Looking Glass fiasco? The people in charge of Firefox are so stupid it’s indistinguishable from malice.
sinceasdf@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Idk the CEOs $6mil salary sounds more like malice to me
neclimdul@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Firefox main problem with profitability relevance. They need more people to get people to use their tools
So I just have two questions.
- How does this get new users?
- How does this help retention?
The only answer is it doesn’t and we don’t care because we’re going to cash out.
I’m not running away, I’ll still open Firefox tomorrow like yesterday because the browser landscape is terrible and the shadow of what Firefox was is still good.
But I’m looking for the disruptor because as questionable as a lot of the new smaller browsers are, there are people out there trying and it’s going to happen.
Tangent5280@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I’m waiting for Ladybird
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
fin@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Nah, Waterfox and Floorp devs are trying to make money out of their software.
LibreWolf or Zen
Uberflussig@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
As long as they do it ethically, there’s nothing wrong with that. That’s also how Foss projects stay alive.
gwilikers@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Awh. I was gonna go with Floorp on the name alone. Great name…
SeeFerns@programming.dev 1 day ago
Zen has been really nice for the few days I’ve been using it. It feels real sleek and just more modern over all.
My computer is a bit old though and I wonder if there is something similar that is even lighter on resources. Zen is still pretty dang light though.
NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
ensuring that this way Firefox offers more data collection
I knew it!
Ciryamo@feddit.org 2 days ago
The sentence reads:
ensuring that this way Firefox offers more data collection and use transparency.
Are you trying to make a joke or intentionally mislead the people who didn’t read the article?
verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Take my upvote, no honor yp your house, though ;)
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Bye Firefox. Boy we had some good times, huh.
SeeFerns@programming.dev 1 day ago
Anyone have any good iOS alternatives? I’m eyeing Orion currently
jimjam5@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
After reading this comment, I downloaded it and am liking it so far. Thanks for spreading the word about it!
Sunshine@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Orion looks good as it does not collect any data. I don’t want Apple profiting from my safari usage.
SeeFerns@programming.dev 1 day ago
Same. I’m about done with all things big tech. As much as is possible at least. Orion it is! I also saw Vivaldi but I’m not super interested in all the other services that come along with it.
eight_byte@feddit.org 17 minutes ago
I will stick with Firefox for the time being. One must not forget that Firefox provides the basis for all the alternatives listed here. Despite all the controversy surrounding Mozilla, I still think Firefox is the better alternative to Chrome. And I would like to support this at least until there is a truly free browser. My hope is that Ladybird will be a success. However, it will take at least another 1-2 years until development is so far advanced that it can be used as a browser for everyday use. Until then, I think we should all continue to support Firefox so that it doesn’t disappear completely from the market.