On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 04:28:50PM -0800, Terrence Cole wrote: > We've had this conversation several times in the last few years and I think > I've finally figured out why it has always felt subtly wrong. > > Our share of users on older platforms is disproportionally high compared to > the market in general because of our decline in market share. People who > don't want to upgrade their OS generally don't want to "upgrade" their > browser to the shiny new "chrome" thing the kids are talking about either.
here is the problem. Firefox has a different userbase than chrome. In my perceprion it is people who are cautious, prefer stable interfaces, not attracted to blingbling and more focused on stability, privacy and security. Much of the blingbling features which some developers die for are a plain nuisance for a significant share of users. It took 4 years to fix the autoplay bug at least partially? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659285 This is what is driving away users. Firefox won't win the blingbling race with Google and Co, maybe if it focuses on its traditional userbase and their demands it would do better. Richard -- Name and OpenPGP keys available from pgp key servers _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
