On 6/7/15 5:30 AM, kevi...@gmx.de wrote:
- "Bitte noch Thunderbird und Sunbird integriegen..." - "Now please go on by
integrating Thunderbird and Sunbird..."
(goes on about how we will end up at Netscape Naviagtor and/or a web suite,
being the primary reason why Firefox exists and that we have to to choose
between the devil (Chrome) and the deep blue sea (Firefox) these days)
I think that quote points to the heart of this debate:
What is a browser? Is it a simple window to the web? Or an integrated
communications suite for online services?
What do users really want? If you look at the 20 most popular Firefox
extensions downloaded this week [1], there are two clear trends:
1. Privacy (7 of the top 20)
2. Downloading videos (11 of the top 20)
Firefox can uniquely compete against Chrome on these two issues!
Google's business model depends on users being tracked across websites
(so no privacy) and watching video ads on YouTube (so no downloading
because Google can't show you video ads offline).
Firefox (Phoenix) unseated the bloated Mozilla Application Suite. Chrome
unseated the then bloated Firefox (though Chrome also benefited from
Google's aggressive advertising on google.com and being bundled in the
Adobe Flash Player's installer). Firefox is faster and slimmer than it
was, but still can't shake its old reputation as a memory hog. Maybe
it's time for Mozilla to rename/rebrand Firefox. Microsoft rebooted IE
as Edge/Spartan and that was received positively.
Who will unseat Chrome? Microsoft's Edge/Spartan, Mozilla's
Servo+browser.html, or some secret "Chrome NG" project inside Google?
chris
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/?sort=popular
* Privacy extensions:
Adblock Plus
Adblock Plus Pop-up Addon
anonymoX
Ghostery
NoScript Security Suite
Adblock Edge
ZenMate Security & Privacy VPN
* Video downloader extensions:
Video DownloadHelper
Flash Video Downloader - YouTube HD Download
Download YouTube Videos as MP4
Ant Video Downloader
DownThemAll!
1-Click YouTube Video Download
YouTube Video and Audio Downloader
Download Flash and Video
YouTube Video Downloader
YouTube Flash Player
Easy Youtube Video Downloader Express
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