![]() ![]() I regret the fact that Brendan was pushed into quitting, and yet I'm in favour of gay marriage. What do you mean, boycotting Mozilla because you want tolerance for opinions dislike? This time around, the debate is around privacy, not superior technology, and being shy and/or going on with an established status quo needs to stop :) Delete You ignored the status quo and pushed forward, and you won the users. I remember Mozilla taking on some pretty hard choice vis-a-vis standards vs compatibility. Web standards and superior technology is what got you to take over Internet Explorer back then. Yet, following and the development of Firefox via mozilla-central pushlog for ages, I feel Mozilla is not being daring enough on that front, and rather seem to want to embrace the status quo. That said, I realize its easier said than done, and one must be practical about how that's being approached. Your trying to appeal to Internet users who care about their privacy, not the mass market. That's what Google can't get away from because of what it fundamentally is, but Mozilla can and should. Your last paragraph is IMO the line of thinking that hurts Mozilla at the moment: "ideas. Lightbeam is cool, but it is really only a gadget that's not even integrated into Firefox by default. You guys have a tag, you should add a tag to raise the issue to the status it deserves :)Ĭonsidering Google's economy is based on user data gathering, the privacy issue, which appeals to people, is a battle that's guaranteed to be won by you guys. Maybe nice privacy improvements are happening under the hood, but your PR department isn't doing a good job at highlighting it systematically. it shouldn't just be a big slogan on your homepage (), but actually rely on privacy improvements in every new version of Firefox.įor e.g., if I go to see what's new in the Firefox Beta notes (), and search for privacy, I see zero changes. Robert, I don't understand why Mozilla doesn't do a better job a beating the drum over privacy with _groundbreaking_ privacy improvements within the Firefox browser itself, inc. Of all the contenders, Mozilla is least likely to establish world Standards-based Web platform as a long-term strategy against lock-in.Īnd one thing I can say for certain is that Unlike Apple and Microsoft, Mozilla is totally committed to the We have a good browser,Īnd lots of dedicated and brilliant people improving it. Of course, Firefox is the best alternative :-). Only yourself to blame for spurning it now. Google wins, then in years to come you'll wish you had a choice and have Using Chrome now and encourage others to do the same. So if you want an Internet - which means, in many ways, a world - that isn't Succeed, their goal is only to replace one victor with another. ![]() Microsoft and Apple will try to stop Google but even if they were to ![]() More power than any company has ever had. That situation will be very difficult to escape from, and it will give Google Where the Internet is really only accessible through Chrome (or Android apps), ![]() PNaCl and Chromecast avoided Blink's Web standards commitments byĭeclaring themselves not part of Blink.) If Google achieves a state Want to do the right thing but the corporation routes around them. Support) to Chrome users, and by writing contracts with Android OEMs forcing The potential for lock-in is vastįor example by restricting certain Google Docs features (e.g. Winning Chrome, which is winning and key Web properties in Search, Youtube, Google is bent on establishing platform domination unlike anything we'veĮver seen, even from late-1990s Microsoft. I know it's not the greatest marketing pitch, but it's the truth. ![]()
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