AnilG <[email protected]> writes: >This is really big picture here: I've looked up and suddenly seen Firefox >market share trajectory looking like we need some steering input fast. This >is a 3 to 6 year picture of decline so it will take as long to correct.
Oh dear, this is really going to open a can of worms that probably shouldn't be opened, I'll try and make this my one and only comment on the topic to avoid a flamefest, but this does need to be corrected: The unstoppable slide of Firefox towards a zero market share has nothing to do with HSTS and other stuff and everything to do with the fact that it's been turned into a bloated copy of Google Chrome, with an endless succession of disastrously bad decisions that have progressively alienated more and more of its loyal user base. If you look at Mozilla's own figures at https://input.mozilla.org/en-US/, they have a 90% dissatisfaction rating from their own users (I was going to use a political comparison there but can't actually find either a politician or corporation who has an approval rating that low). Slashdot (yeah, I know, but it is a reasonable indicator of geek opinion) recently introduced a story on Firefox with the comment "for once a story about a Firefox change that isn't negative". I don't think it's worth trying to appeal to Mozilla, because it's a toss-up whether they'll drop to zero percent market share naturally or drive it to zero when they discontinue their plugin API (XPCOM and XUL), the only reason for still staying with Firefox. So the organisation you want to negotiate with is whoever forks Firefox and reboots it, not the one that's currently running it into the ground. The "correction" will be when it's forked and saved by others, in the same way that Phoenix was forked and saved from Netscape. (Apologies to the Mozilla security folks reading this, I know you guys do a good job on your part of the browser, but seeing Mozilla slowly run their flagship product into the ground has been like watching a train wreck one freeze-frame at a time). Peter. _______________________________________________ dev-security-policy mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security-policy
