How Mozilla Ruined Firefox

Firefox used to be on top of the world with almost a third of all internet users using Firefox. These days, they make up a pitiful 2.7% of the market share. What happened? In this video, I want to show how Mozilla's terrible management and decisions have brought this once beloved browser down.

Sources:

0:00 The fall of Firefox
1:34 Privacy promises
3:45 Why use Firefox, anyway?
4:42 Deals with the devil
7:08 Big business
8:24 Making the world a better place
9:54 Mozilla doesn't care about you
11:29 Firefox (lack of) Focus
12:02 Mismanaged funds
13:12 What happened to Firefox?

[merevial]

I specifically use Firefox because it's one of the last non-Chromium based browsers. Also Google is giving Firefox a bunch of money cause they need to keep them around as a cop-out to keep U.S. Anti-Trust regulators from investigating Google's control of the browser market share.

[beavatatlan]

Remember Firefox?
yes. I'm watching this in a firefox browser

[fptbb]

The saddest part is that if you want to abandon ship, THERE'S NO MORE SHIPS ON THE SEA.

[flioink]

"Remember that fox browser?"
That one I've been using since forever?

[deivorous-]

As someone who has stuck with Firefox for more than a decade now (it started because FF was less resource hoggy which worked for my slower computers), and I can't really imagine changing. Thanks for exposing Mozilla though, this will just make me take steps to ensure my own privacy instead of counting on the browser to do it for me.

[TechJoltd]

Sometimes I wish that firefox (and thunderbird) were run more like a traditional open source project where the community had a really big say in things.

[secondlifearound]

🦆 DuckDuckGo isn’t that innocent either.

[fauzirahman]

I'm a firefox user and I strip many of these features and change the settings. I can completely understand why some people leave Firefox for privacy reasons, but moving towards Chrome for that doesn't make sense. Moving to a more obscure privacy focused browser would make more sense. At the moment I'll happily move to a forked Firefox browser where I can still use the same extensions.

[richards]

I'm really disappointed in Mozilla for the reasons described in this video.
But I still use hardened Firefox because I just don't see any better alternatives.
I would rather not use a chromium based browser.

[Alltracavenger]

The two primary reasons I still use Firefox are because I'm extremely distrustful of Google and as a result anything Chromium-based is suspect. Also, the ad blocking in Firefox is likely going to stay effective longer than anything Chromium-based. Yes, it's absolutely not perfect but I do take privacy measures that go beyond the stock setup.

[lellyparker]

I don't think anyone left Firefox for ideological reasons. If people hated Google so much they would not have abandoned Forefox for Google Chrome. Google just made a faster slicker browser and Firefox keeps finding ways to be slow after they do a new faster than ever revamp.

[Chaos_Rifle]

I use firefox because google keeps threatening to break ad blocking plugins, and the fact they think its okay to say it at all makes it clear its not a place to stay, so a change had to be made. That leaves firefox as the next best option. Many of my IT friends did it for the same reason, at the same timeframe. It's not better, it's just not claiming its going to get worse. This is just where we are in the browser space now, sadly.

Can't honestly say I have ever seen a website not work on firefox though, wtf web devs lol

[AdroSlice]

I use Firefox.
I started using it because Opera got rid of their best features like tab stacking and their email client, and switched to chromium.
I continue to use Firefox because I do not wish for an internet where Google controls the entire presentation layer.
I am okay with Firefox because they provide me the tools to turn off the bullshit, and make it a better experience for myself.

[charlesrichards]

Up until about 5 years ago, FireFox had a neat feature where you could right-click a bookmark and one of the options was a text-box in which you could enter descriptions (which must've taken up an imperceptible amount of code). People were using this box to store their user-names and password hints so it could be brought up when using that bookmark. FireFox said they removed it because their telemetry said few people were using this feature. In reality, people using these text-boxes tended to be power-users who also blocked telemetry. 😖

[forestrf]

> Remember Firefox?
I'm using it.

[doncaper]

What speed are you missing by using firefox? If there is a difference? it must be miliseconds because I don't notice any issues with the speed of Firefox. Why did you say you can't log in with your google account and sync firefox across all your devices? That's UNTRUE, it absolutely syncs across devices, seamlessly. What webites have you used that dont support Firefox? 20 years now and I haven't had that issue.

[helloimatapir]

"Mozilla's failed projects are even giving Google's graveyard a run for it's money." Not even comparable. Nobody kills more products than Google.

[eUploads]

Firefox might gain some new users if Google finally ends up banning ad blockers from chrome

[drndn]

The most important reason that Firefox needs to thrive is because it is the only alternative to Chromium, which is every other browser. If Firefox goes, Chromium will be everything, there will be a 100% monopoly, no competition.

[cell]

If google kills ad blocker on YouTube we could see a landslide of users.