Vineet Sinha wrote:
>
> Greg Miller wrote:
>
>>This would require finding someone to fund such a study. It also sets a
>>very high standard.
>>...
>>Certainly not. In fact, almost nobody downloads and installs browsers.
>>If we're counting on them to do that, Mozilla will be lucky to ever
>>crack 10% marketshare no matter how good it is or what its reputation is
>>like. ISPs and OS vendors decide what browsers people use.
>>
>
> Because of those reasons, we could drop the requirements and make it a
> stop criteria, i.e. we don't release if 10% of users don't switch. This
> would at least ensure some consumer feedback.
That 10% number was an off-the-cuff estimate, and assumes there's
already a 1.0 or higher release with near-perfect quality. The scheme
you're suggesting breaks far too easily even with a better number, since
it would be skewed by good distribution deals with ISPs or OS vendors or
by a sudden burst of good or bad publicity.
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