/dev/urandom on Nostr: people who say "mozilla should just invest completely in making a fast lightweight ...
people who say "mozilla should just invest completely in making a fast lightweight web browser and they'll regain their marketshare" are sadly mistaken
out of all the history of software displacing other software i've seen, it is almost never about quantitative improvements ("20% faster", "10% less battery consumption", etc.)
if that were the case, desktop linux wouldn't be stuck at 3% market share
usually it is either about some sort of killer feature (like when IE was dethroned by firefox for having tabs or in some places by opera for being optimized for slow internet connections)
or about being the first in a certain niche (like how smartphone-targeted messengers displaced old IM apps like AOL, ICQ, MSN etc. by being better-suited for smartphones and having an easy phone-number-based way to keep contacts, even though those previous protocols actually had more features
maybe the folks at mozilla are foolish for chasing trends, but i don't know what else i would do in their place
out of all the history of software displacing other software i've seen, it is almost never about quantitative improvements ("20% faster", "10% less battery consumption", etc.)
if that were the case, desktop linux wouldn't be stuck at 3% market share
usually it is either about some sort of killer feature (like when IE was dethroned by firefox for having tabs or in some places by opera for being optimized for slow internet connections)
or about being the first in a certain niche (like how smartphone-targeted messengers displaced old IM apps like AOL, ICQ, MSN etc. by being better-suited for smartphones and having an easy phone-number-based way to keep contacts, even though those previous protocols actually had more features
maybe the folks at mozilla are foolish for chasing trends, but i don't know what else i would do in their place