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Firefox is on the brink of being dropped by the US Government (www.brycewray.com)

submitted 11 months ago by morrowind@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] psychothumbs@lemmy.world 17 points 11 months ago (3 children)

That's terrible. How can Firefox usage rates be declining? It seems like every day there's some new scammy feature being rolled out in all the other browsers.

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[–] spark947@lemm.ee 16 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Are they talking about government devices? I've never seen firefox installed on a government device.

[–] MrConfusion@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They are talking about .gov websites. Any website operated by the US government should, at least according to their own standards, develop for and test for users using Firefox. If this is followed in practice the article doesn't really cover.

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Mozilla hasn't been putting any effort into making firefox a proper competitor despite their 400M+/year from Google.

They haven't pushed the envelope in any way, haven't invested in a Rust browser engine, haven't moved away from XUL, haven't fixed their oldest bugs, haven't made Gecko more easily embeddable, haven't added added better documentation to Gecko, haven't improved speed or memory use, haven't invested heavily in their android version (it's slow af on older devices), only just now are starting to enable extensions in firefox on android, ...

Their biggest changes are buying up a few useless startups (Pocket, some analytics company?), multiprocess firefox, manifest, containers, looking more chrome-like, firing 400 developers or something during COVID and paying their CEO 5M (?).

All they do is exist. The only reason people switch is because other browsers fuck up. IMO, that's not a strategy to get more users, but a strategy to collect the Google cheque.

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