Fits in with the recent story “I've been working at Mozilla for many years, from peak to decline” (slashdot.org)" <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11230084" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11230084</a><p>> We keep getting ridiculous thing after ridiculous thing. A lot of people opposed FirefoxOS vs getting back to the roots and attempting to do something about the web. FirefoxOS sounds like a nice concept, but everyone with a bit of a brain knew we had ZERO technical AND market chance.<p>> Then, when it sounded like we're ok killing that and doing things well again BOOM IoT. Same mistake only even worse!
I was at a linux and open source focussed conference once and a speaker started talking about the future for their FOSS office software. I think it was going to be some multimedia or video something or other but I turned off. It was already bloated enough and it still was missing functionality demanded by people coming from other platforms. At the time my wife couldn't get it to do some basic job the market leading product could do and a feature request had been outstanding for several years to implement that feature.<p>Firefox needs to keep up with Chrome. Then when they have done they need to get better than Chrome. Then when they have done that they can provide a development environment better than Chrome. Then they can try and take market share back from IE and Chrome. Then they can make a purely Rust based next gen browser that is more secure than any other browser. And perhaps they can produce a ChromeOS competitor which has a decent IMAP mail client (I would buy that).
I don't get why both can't co-exist at the same time. FF OS is ideal for the low-end market with a more light-weight OS that can run on cheaper devices.<p>Perhaps they should open a satellite office in a place like Kenya so that they can understand a tech-savvy local African market.<p>Then again, this is Mozilla, the company that tried to kill Thunderbird...