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929 points ameshkov | 8 comments | 15 Jan 20 19:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.637s | source | bottom
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dman ◴[15 Jan 20 21:11 UTC] No.22058629[source]▶
Brendan Eich has a helpful chart of Compensation of Highest paid executive at Mozilla vs Firefox market share over time.

https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1217512049716035584/p...

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throwaway123x2 ◴[15 Jan 20 22:02 UTC] No.22059260[source]▶
It's crazy how much FF's marketshare has dropped. It's such a great browser.
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pier25 ◴[15 Jan 20 22:35 UTC] No.22059567[source]▶
Hmm I don't know. I switched to FF 4 months ago and while the engine and dev tools are great, it's simply not as polished as the competition.

For example just look at the alert popups[0], or the non native contextual menus, or the video pop icon. The UI is full of little quirks like that. The tab bar is by far the ugliest one of all current browsers, at least on macOS.

It also misses important features such as multilingual spell checking. For people writing in multiple languages it's a real PITA. I know this functionality can be added with an extension but it slows down FF too much IMO.

[0] https://imgur.com/lODjWSm

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1. takeda ◴[15 Jan 20 22:42 UTC] No.22059635[source]▶
> It also misses important features such as multilingual spell checking. For people writing in multiple languages it's a real PITA. I know this functionality can be added with an extension but it slows down FF too much IMO.

Really? Do you learn a new language every day? I installed languages that I am interested years ago and forgot about it until you mentioned it.

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2. GranPC ◴[15 Jan 20 22:46 UTC] No.22059661[source]▶
No, but some people write text in more than one language inside Firefox.
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3. flexd ◴[15 Jan 20 22:53 UTC] No.22059708[source]▶
A lot of us are bi-lingual. English is not my first language, so being able to use spell checking for my native language and English without things breaking is important to me.
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4. pier25 ◴[15 Jan 20 22:56 UTC] No.22059749[source]▶
Yeah but you don't have spell checking on all these languages unless you manually switch between those.

I write in 4 languages so it's quite annoying to do that every time. In Chrome there is multilingual spell checking even when you mix languages in the same sentence.

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6. takeda ◴[15 Jan 20 23:51 UTC] No.22060190[source]▶
well, I'm bi-lingual as well, I only needed to install languages once. I don't want to have installed dictionary for every language under the sun. They do take space.
7. takeda ◴[15 Jan 20 23:52 UTC] No.22060198[source]▶
you can add as many as you want (at least I didn't hit the limit) it's just 2 clicks for each and they are retained between upgrades, the parent issue is that Firefox doesn't come with every language installed by default.
8. takeda ◴[15 Jan 20 23:54 UTC] No.22060215[source]▶
oh my bad, I misunderstood what he meant.