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Mozilla lays off 70

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929 points ameshkov | 3 comments | 15 Jan 20 19:48 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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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. multiplegeorges ◴[15 Jan 20 23:44 UTC] No.22060128[source]▶
I found a UX quirk that bothered me.

I documented it, proposed a solution with my own justifications for why it would be better, and submitted a bug report.

Feedback from Moz, the work done on it, the patches created, and the release plan for it were all done in the open and I could track it.

The change I suggested was implemented and is now out.

Be the change you want to see... only Firefox/Mozilla would do this in such an open way.

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2. pier25 ◴[16 Jan 20 01:32 UTC] No.22060835[source]▶
> Opened 19 years ago

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69687

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3. multiplegeorges ◴[16 Jan 20 13:01 UTC] No.22064061[source]▶
Sure, no process is perfect. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

The multilingual thing sounds like a big problem for people that rely on that.

My comment was directed to your other complaints about UX quirks.