D is the best tool for this!!! How do we tell them??

[Martyn]

On Sunday, 4 August 2024 at 09:55:23 UTC, aberba wrote:
> On Sunday, 4 August 2024 at 09:51:48 UTC, aberba wrote:
>> On Sunday, 4 August 2024 at 08:20:25 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 3 August 2024 at 23:04:06 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> What killed Firefox are all the devs that ship Chrome 
>>> everywhere with their Electron crap, and while complaining 
>>> about Google, cannot care less to test anything else beyond 
>>> Chrome.
>>
>> Mozilla killed Firefox when the lost focus of their main 
>> product. Follow when they were spending their money.
>
> Firefox was really bad, it has little to do with any specific 
> language IMO, it was an organizational failure. The DevTool 
> relied upon by front-end devs was horrible. It's gotten better 
> since then but now it's almost too late.

I have been a Firefox user since 2007. Still prefer it today. I 
did not experience the things others say about Firefox. I prefer 
the dev tools over Chrome to this day.

Regardless - even if Firefox was absolutely perfect.. competing 
against other web browsers backed by top tech companies will 
always be problematic.

On its left you have Microsoft which destroyed Netscape 
Navigator. Most Windows users will use IE 6/7/8/etc because its 
there. With Firefox, you had to download it (if you have even 
heard of it)

On its right is Google Chrome (released 2008) heavily marketed by 
(obviously) google.. which the masses jumped on and used.

As I say -- even if Firefox was the best web browser, it will 
never be the popular browser. Even if it was, it would be for a 
brief moment and, likely, would have been over 10 years ago.

Most people do not care about their rights or any other thing. 
They just want to do something, and they will use what is likely 
reinstalled. Buy a new PC... already comes with Windows. Want a 
Web Browser... here is Edge! etc.