While I personally want a browser that is fast, small, reliable and trustworthy, we have market research that shows us that you and I are a minority. More precisely, we have market numbers that shows that users want a Pocket-like feature and are not going to bother checking if there are add-ons that implement it.
Now, we are still trying to find a good strategy in a world in which every competitor can afford to put at least 2x more developers than us to work on a feature and 20x more money than us in marketing and evangelizing everything they do and attracting add-on developers. I believe that this is what you cal the "what-the-hell-are-you-doing". Not everybody inside Mozilla likes partnering with third-parties to bring in features that we cannot afford to develop, but at the moment, people who have actually studied the issue and the market believe that this is our best strategy, and I am willing to give them a chance to prove it. If this strategy doesn't work for our users (including you or I, but also people who have very different views on what a browser should be), we will adapt. Best regards, David On 18/06/15 15:54, [email protected] wrote: > I'm not a browser programmer, or a web developer or anything. I'm just a user > of firefox. > But I'm sitting here watching Mozilla go down the rabbit hole trying to fight > Microsoft and Google on their terms. New features! Flashy advertisement! > Condescending 'we know what you want in a browser' blog posts! > > What I want in a browser is fast, small, reliable, and trustworthy. If you > give up those qualities in an attempt to beat people a hundred times your > size... Well, I suspect you're going to bleed offended users faster than > you're going to pick up new ones. > > To me, this isn't just about Pocket, though having yet another new icon > appear on my toolbar out of the blue pissed me off. Pocket is just a symptom > of the 'what-the-hell-are-you-doing' that mozilla has been sitting in for a > couple years now. > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > -- David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD Performance Team, Mozilla
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