On Friday, 18 September 2015 12:29:46 UTC+10, Peter Gutmann wrote: > AnilG 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 . . .
Thanks for responding to my question, Peter. What I'm proposing here though, whether or not anyone agrees with your context, is could it be that: 1. the difficulty of administering Firefox in an enterprise environment 2. and other security related behaviours in the domestic environment are aspects of Firefox that: 1. could have been having the effect of cutting Firefox out of the game (because the rest of the world "couldn't keep up") 2. can be feasibly changed in the next year to "get back onto the pitch" I don't have the knowledge or context that Peter (anyone here) has but it looks to me like there's still a lot of folks who love Firefox. I think it's still the world's best browser, but it was disconcerting to me when I couldn't physically use it because it simply stopped working. I put in the yards to get my Firefox back out to the internet, using Chrome meanwhile. Other users would have flipped off Firefox to Chrome and never looked back. Also in the domestic area, if a user finds Firefox "stops working sometimes" when Chrome "still works", he may switch to Chrome and never go back. That's the restricted scope of this proposal. I'm not saying fix anything, just can we put Firefox at the same pace of the rest of the world with respect to security so that it (kind of) never fails to show a page that Chrome can show and works out of the box for enterprise roll outs? It looks to me like these are the two most significant market share killers in the box. _______________________________________________ dev-security-policy mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-security-policy
