Today, I step into the role of CEO of Mozilla Corporation. It is a privilege to lead an organization with a long history of standing up for people and buil
Or add it to the list of onboarding steps at the very beginning. Otherwise, it’s either on by default or off by default, and our (or Mozilla’s) definition of “easy” is entirely open to interpretation.
Gee, our userbase is shrinking. What should we do? learn what the users want and cater to their needs? No, definitely what we must do is double down and force more unpopular features. That will surely bring back the users that left because of our previous decisions.
Most of the “abandon Firefox” rhetoric I’ve seen is due to their sudden focus on cramming in AI while simultaneously ignoring or half-assing long wanted features (e.g PWA support).
And to think that shoving in AI will fix any pre-existing userbase shrinkage is like thinking having a baby will save one’s failing marriage.
How about you make it something people have to turn on, and make it useful enough that they will enable it?
Or add it to the list of onboarding steps at the very beginning. Otherwise, it’s either on by default or off by default, and our (or Mozilla’s) definition of “easy” is entirely open to interpretation.
Or, better yet, step down as CEO. Pick someone who is in touch with what the project’s dedicated userbase actually wants.
a userbase that is largely shrinking?
Gee, our userbase is shrinking. What should we do? learn what the users want and cater to their needs? No, definitely what we must do is double down and force more unpopular features. That will surely bring back the users that left because of our previous decisions.
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Most of the “abandon Firefox” rhetoric I’ve seen is due to their sudden focus on cramming in AI while simultaneously ignoring or half-assing long wanted features (e.g PWA support).
And to think that shoving in AI will fix any pre-existing userbase shrinkage is like thinking having a baby will save one’s failing marriage.
it’s been shrinking for well over 10 years, nothing to do with ai
Last data I saw showed user base pretty flat for the past 5 years.
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1mhks3h/firefoxs_weekly_active_users_fall_below_150/
https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity
230,000,000 in 2021 204,000,000 in 2025
I don’t go to the website you linked to. Sorry.
no problems, what’s Chromes userbase by comparison?
Right, opt-in not opt-out.