Maybe if Mozilla focused less on new useless features and redesigns, they would be able to focus more on writing secure and bug-free code.
I'm not only talking about big things like
* Pocket,
* several major UI redesigns and
* the offline translations,
but even tiny useless things like
* browser.urlbar.trimURLs,
* putting the search query in the URL bar instead of the URL after searching from the URL bar,
* messing with the Edit and Resend feature for no reason (the good one that updates the content length is still available at devtools.netmonitor.features.newEditAndResend) and
* probably thousands of little shit like this that took a bunch of developer hours to implement.
All of the above should've been add-ons.
And of course, we know Mozilla spends a lot of money on things unrelated to Firefox at all. It's amazing Firefox is somewhat secure and stable compared to Chrome, which is backed by Google with their infinitely deep pockets.
This is a web browser, after all. Something most people use all the time. Something that accepts untrusted input from thousands of sources every day. People use it pretty much every aspect of their lives - banking, personal communication, porn, expressing political opinions. It's used for viewing PDFs, playing media files, for interacting with a whole bunch of APIs (that IMO shouldn't be part of the web, but they are). Security should be top priority.
It would be amazing if we didn’t have to have this conversation on every single thread about anything related to Firefox.
Firefox/Mozilla tries literally anything to expand their feature set, customer base, or revenue stream? They need to stop spending money on that and instead spend money on the free product of theirs that I care about, in exactly the way I want.
Google surveilles the entire world, spends huge amounts on lobbying, degrades their own websites on other browsers? Not a peep, usually.
For my part, I pay mozilla for their VPN service, which I’m sure many here would decry as useless spending that should be going to firefox instead.
> It would be amazing if we didn’t have to have this conversation on every single thread about anything related to Firefox.
If Firefox starts acting maturely, we can stop having these conversations. Until then we see useless crap in every update while most bugs don't get any meaningful attention. Some changes even made things worse than they were before, for example the new Edit and Resend (not so "new" anymore). If Mozilla starts acting the best interest of the user, stops with the ad BS and doesn't try to be everything all at once and actually focuses on Firefox, I would donate. And so would others. If I donate now, I doubt even 1% of my money would go to anything meaningful, like bug fixing.
> Not a peep, usually.
No, fuck Google and Chrome and even anything Chromium-based. Here's the peep from me.
> For my part, I pay mozilla for their VPN service, which I’m sure many here would decry as useless spending that should be going to firefox instead.
Does the profit from the VPN service go to Firefox? If not, what's the point of having a VPN service.