I see 0 problems with this. Disney gets their exposure. Mozilla gets some money (I hope) and exposure. The users don't really get negatively affected. I hope this helps increase Firefox's market share to make it more competitive to Chrome.<p>The fact that Disney use DRM means that Mozilla should not have done this is a weak point at best. DRM is used by most media companies.<p>I feel like people just get angry at Mozilla for the hell of it without understanding that they have to pay their employees somehow. Also Mozilla could "team up" with any org and someone would find a way to get angry over it.
> In celebration of “Turning Red,” streaming on Disney+ on March 11th, we are creating new Firefox desktop colorways and mobile wallpapers based on the movie as an optional way to show your personality through your browser. We’ve also created a destination for all things 2002 nostalgia and will be having conversations with people about their journeys to embrace their true colors online.<p>Making a couple themes and an ad site couldn't have been a big project, presumably this is the sort of thing a couple marketing interns can throw together in a couple months, right? If this got Mozilla a nice check from The Mouse which they can use to fund browser development, I don't see any downsides here.
Not sure how many new users last colorways experiment has brought, but I think Mozilla should prioritize working on actual browser features to catch up with Chrome. There are still problems with chat/video conferencing apps, e.g. MS Teams, that work even on Safari. And there are smaller things too: <a href="https://wpt.fyi/compat2021?feature=summary" rel="nofollow">https://wpt.fyi/compat2021?feature=summary</a>
'We're committed to an open web - that's why we're teaming up with Disney, the company that locks all their content behind DRM.'
This article is blatantly just an ad for a Disney movie with almost no interesting content. I'm not sure I have ever seen something like this rank so highly on HN. What am I missing? Why are people upvoting this?
HN: Mozilla depends way too heavily on revenue from Google paying to be the default engine. They need to find other ways to make money.<p>Also HN: why is Mozilla wasting time promoting a Disney movie?
Why is this being hated on? It's a revenue model for them to make the competitive browser we want...<p>Having these large branded cosmetic additions to firefox is kinda a genius non-intrusive or at least less intrusive way to do advertisements.
Grumps: Why is FF losing market share!?<p>Mozilla: Does stuff to gain market share.<p>Grumps: Pissed off Mozilla does stuff to gain market share.<p>It's a freaking browser. Browsers peaked like 30 years ago. They're ALL on maintenance at this point.
Although I don't have a problem with this kind of promo, I think it's a shame the sweepstake page [0] does not clearly explain that only US residents who haven't previously subscribed to Disney+ are eligible. To find this out, you have to click a tiny link to the official rules [1] which are full of legalese.<p>It personally feels a bit deceitful that they're, in a sense, tricking people into signing up for Firefox news under the guise of a sweepstake that many people won't be eligible for.<p>[0] <a href="https://truecolors.firefox.com/contest" rel="nofollow">https://truecolors.firefox.com/contest</a><p>[1] <a href="https://truecolors.firefox.com/contest/rules" rel="nofollow">https://truecolors.firefox.com/contest/rules</a>
Phew, it's just a sponsored Firefox theme. I was so worried when I saw the headline that they were doing something like Proprietary Disney+ HDR...
Mozilla leadership is an embarrassment. They just need to make things that Google cancels - RSS/news aggregator, Google Inbox like email client, etc.<p>Make it and sell it, generate revenue and get off Google’s tit.
Well well.. seems like I really nailed this one [0] 2 days ago we had a thread about FF losing market share and what some would do to help that.I was right in pointing out Mozilla's priorities: color themes & data-collecting extensions, definitely not for fueling ad-based companies with data which trickle down in profit for both parties.<p>I guess nobody even at Mozilla gives a damn anymore, just make the browser an equivalent of a mobile app for browsing tiktok and consuming media already, because between that and pushing color themes, there's nothing on the horizon for people who just want an usable browser.At this point i expect even Edge to catch-up heavily, at least we're expecting consistent garbage from Microsoft so in that regard there won't be any surprises.<p>[0] (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30336317" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30336317</a>)
Why in the heck is Firefox trying to sell itself as something you use to "show your true colors"? That promotional video tells me nothing other than that Disney has another movie coming out. Is it referring to installing themes/skins? This just seems way out of touch, in which case Disney is the right company for Mozilla.
What's interesting here is that "good different, different good" is both completely meaningless, and also the exact argument that comes up on HN whenever firefox is brought up as an alternative to chromium browsers.
For those who didn't find, there is actually a sweepstake of 500 disney+ subscriptions sponsored by Mozilla Corporation.<p><a href="https://truecolors.firefox.com/contest" rel="nofollow">https://truecolors.firefox.com/contest</a>
As long as it doesn't get in the way of fixing it it cannot hurt to spread awareness of Firefox.<p>(Not saying it is worse than anything else, just that it used to be better.)