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alfapla ◴[] No.10039620[source]
It's little more than a year ago that Brendan Eich was ousted from Mozilla by an ugly orchestrated cabal. When I read Mitchell Baker's vapid blog post [1] on the decision, filled with polite backstabbing and politically correct buzzwordery I understood that Mozilla has been taken over by politicians and that its decline is just a matter of time.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/03/brendan-eich-steps-...

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SkatAndRap ◴[] No.10040396[source]
I have been looking at https://input.mozilla.org/ now and then for a long time, and I am still astounded at how it's typically around 90% unhappy, 10% happy.

I know that some Mozilla supporters will justify that huge difference by saying, "but unhappy people will always complain and happy people won't say anything", but I don't think that's necessarily the case. Here we have Mozilla's own stats saying that a lot of their users are extremely unhappy with Firefox.

Clearly something is very wrong for the disapproval rating to be so high, and the satisfaction rating to be so low. In other situations, such a high disapproval rating would be met with extreme concern, immediate retrospection, and panic.

Even in the case of US presidents, where people don't have an immediate alternative like they do with web browsers, and where people's emotions run rampant, it's very rare to see an approval rating under 40%. The very worst approval ratings still are around 25%.

So something is seriously wrong for Mozilla's products to consistently have an approval rating of only 10%, or even 20% if we're being generous.

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1. shdon ◴[] No.10040492[source]
Take a look at the platform statistics there. Nearly half of the feedback (46%) comes from Android users. Reading the comments, they seem like the (very uninsightful) reviews you typically see in the Google Play Store where the "unhappy people will complain" seems to be quite true.

Firefox for Android is a fundamentally different beast from the browser on Windows/Linux/MacOS. I am quite happy with the desktop version, yet I find the mobile experience quite underwhelming.

If you limit the selection by platform, on Android it will even show "100% sad, 0% happy" -- Mozilla has some work to do there. On Windows 7 you get "81% sad, 19% happy". Still bad, I agree, but don't just dismiss the inherent bias of a feedback system. And compare them to the stats for competitors, too.