Is Firefox OK?

Mozilla’s privacy-heavy browser is flatlining but still crucial to future of the web.

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[Tridus]

Downvotes? Someone doesn't like facts? OK:

* XUL abandoned and with it thousands of powerful extensions (a ton of them have never been reimplemented)
* UI has been changed great many times with the last iteration probably the most horrible one (considering all the white space, huge fonts, gray nondescript icons) - on Reddit people were really unhappy
* Features removed
* Full themes support removed
* Browser customization shrunk
* Only a couple of years ago Firefox stopped leaking RAM like crazy

And here's their last feat:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30375640

Yeah, it's all "because of" Google Chrome. Really. Except Mozilla has actively been shooting themselves in the foot for the past decade.

Exactly none of that has anything to do with your first comment:

MBAs and SJWs took over

Firefox's central problem is that it has lots of alternatives that largely do similar things and doesn't have a distinguishing reason to use it over the alternatives anymore. That has exactly nothing to do with SJWs... and the article itself also doesn't blame it "all on Chrome".

If you want fewer downvotes, put away the nonsensical axe to grind.

These days on a Windows PC, Edge does the job pretty well. If you want Chrome/Vivaldi/Opera/Brave/etc, they're there. They all work pretty well. What's the reason to get Firefox over them?

 

[Tridus]

They keep chasing a new Chrome-like feature or look while killing things I use regularly. I don't want that shit. I want the old customizable feature-rich Firefox experience I had back in the 2.0 days.
So many users eject after each interface overhaul or silent removal of basic functionality and Firefox's trademark customizability. Yet they kept doing it. Madness.

Ironically, this reminds me of the recent article and a comment on it about Google itself and how every time they depreciate an API or replace an app with a new version of the same thing, some people bail out and will never come back.

Firefox did a lot of the same thing: it got big in the first place because it did some things really well, more tech savvy users loved it, and installed it for their friends/family. Then Mozilla systematically alienated those people by removing the stuff they liked, while changing the UI and making it harder for the non-tech savvy folks to follow why it was changing.

They tried to out-Chrome Chrome, and chased everyone off in the process.