![]() ![]() If you are trying to use POSIX-based assumptions on Windows it doesn't matter what you are doing, including "lots of files in a single folder", you are going to have a bad time. Part of what certainly doesn't help is that most of the "lots of files in a single folder" applications make other POSIX-based assumptions (such as locks and consistency with respect to concurrency are generally much more opt-in and eventually consistent by default in POSIX rather than opt-out and aggressively consistent by default in Windows). People take "Windows is bad at lots of files in a single folder" as faith from some bible of Operating Systems Allegories rather than something they've worked with directly or seen tested themselves first-hand. I just think that, especially in light of things like that last comment you like, so much of that reputation at this point is folklore more than benchmarks. I definitely understand it gets talked about a lot, endlessly. I don't fault anyone who says fuck it and just uses Chrome so that ALL sites work out of the box. Thankfully Linux distros still provide a last defense layer - but that we need that layer at all for something that is supposed to be an open browser is ridiculous. I certainly don't trust Mozilla's autoupdates and won't use upstream builds. So I still use Firefox but its only because it is the lesser evil, and the differrence is shrinking. And those are often provided by extension whose API Mozilla limits more and more. The only remaining advantage are some niche features here and there. Again, any user pushback is summarily dismissed. User feedback is continuously ignored, often with the only argument being developer convenience.īecause of a focus on privacy? While they do like to push that angle in their marketing and in some ways do more to prevent websites from tracking you they show little concern for making the browser itself respect your privacy with opt out telemetry, eperiments, in-browser advertising and more. It's open source software but not an open source project. ![]() But both seem to have mostly cathedral-style development and someone outside of Mozilla is unlikely to be able to influence the direction of the project in any meaningful way. So why would anyone use Firefox over chrome?īecause it is open source? Sure, but so is Chromium. Being as good as Chrome is not good enough to maintain users when Google is agressively pushing their browser in ways that Mozilla simply can't. Along with compatibility issues (even if they are rare and not Firefox's fault) there is less and less reason to choose it. Unless you count the even-smaller real-open-source-only-we-need-web-freedom demographic.Ī common sentiment (which I share) is that Firefox has less and less to distiguish itself from Chrome(ium). ![]() By alienating its core "fanbase" or whatever you want to call it, by alienating its power users, Firefox alienated the only demographic it ever had an actual shot with. That is, unless a big banner comes up on YouTube telling her she needs to download Chrome for the best experience. ![]() Mozilla was never going to be able to compete with Chrome by assuming that "if we were just more like Chrome, people would use us", or "we need to make a browser for grandma." Grandma doesn't download browsers. Then they failed to recognize that while Chrome was a comparable technical product, maybe even slightly better in some ways, the reason for its success it because it was relentlessly shilled by a huge megacorporation that pushed it in advertising, on the world's biggest web properties, and even had it packaged in installers for other products. Mozilla somehow failed to recognize their entire core userbase was power users and Firefox fans, which relentlessly evangelized the product to other people, going around installing it on grandma's computer. There's not really any reason to use Firefox besides habit now, and I don't, except on my desktop. Almost all my browsing is done in Chrome and Brave now. That wouldn't have gained them appreciable new users, but it would have slowed losses. ![]()
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