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929 points ameshkov | 7 comments | 15 Jan 20 19:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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. reaperducer ◴[15 Jan 20 22:47 UTC] No.22059668[source]▶
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.

The polish of developer tools has exactly zero to do with a browser's popular marketshare.

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2. afturner ◴[15 Jan 20 22:49 UTC] No.22059689[source]▶
I do believe there's a comma missing there. engine and dev tools are great (full stop) But! it's simply not as polished.
3. pier25 ◴[15 Jan 20 22:51 UTC] No.22059700[source]▶
My bad, I missed a coma...
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4. reaperducer ◴[15 Jan 20 23:09 UTC] No.22059843[source]▶
Ah. I thought you were saying the dev tools weren't polished.
5. RaptorJ ◴[15 Jan 20 23:26 UTC] No.22059992[source]▶
Well maybe not exactly zero, more devs using FF tools --> more websites designed to be optimized for FF first.
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6. robotron ◴[15 Jan 20 23:56 UTC] No.22060230[source]▶
If you optimize for your devs use and not your users there's a problem.
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7. hutzlibu ◴[16 Jan 20 00:57 UTC] No.22060638{3}[source]▶
But the user will switch to a browser that works for them. Which is happening.

All the people I know, who left FF, myself partly included, did so for this reason. Quite some sites did not work anymore on firefox. And the normal user does not care that this is because of vendorprefixes which are not standard. They care about that their website does not work anymore.

Keep the webdevs ... keep your users.