IMO they should focus purely on Firefox and maybe Thunderbird, everything else is unneeded. Mozilla VPN is fine but Mullvad exists and their email relay service isn't that great tbh. Other then that cut executive pay to represent the actural value they bring (next to nothing) and work with Firefox forks to harden base Firefox.
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Last Mozilla survey I filled out had a Mozilla domain. Is this actually Mozilla?
Bring back your Advocacy division. Lower the pay for your CEO. Secure funding from other entities so that you are no longer dependent on Google. Focus more on implementing better security measures on Linux and Android, specifically within the domain of sandboxing your open processes. Keep about:config and manifest v2 options available.
Stop paying the CEO so much!
Firefox could by now have:
- Much better anti-fingerprinting for a generalized threat model (RFP is too specialized for anonymity)
- Fission (per-site process isolation) for Android, among other things.
- Integrated content blocking (based on uBlock but with the development power of Mozilla)
- Tab groups ffs
- Native force dark mode for web pages
- Sandboxing support using zypak fork server for Flatpak (currently Flatpak weakens Firefox isolation substantially)
- UI/UX update (hire the talent at Zen browser)
Regarding AI, there are only options on what would be great with AI. There simply is no option "No, I don't f-ing want AI" in a Mozilla product.
I want a Browser and an EMail program. Not something that tries to do thinking for me.
Amen. Basically this survey reads to me as "we decided to focus on AI and we need some pretty graphs to show it's an awesome idea - please tell us why you think AI is the best thing ever!"
That's exactly what I took from it as well. It's a survey designed to get the answers they want, not the actual feedback they're pretending to ask for.
There are a couple 'Other - Please Specify' fields I definitely filled out with 'Do not do AI'.
I really like their local translation models. Simply saying "no AI!" feels very luddite to me for such a broad category.
I have no problem with things like Mozilla Common Voice. I have a big problem with integrating machine-learning stuff into Firefox by default.
I remember back when ~~Phoenix~~ ~~Firebird~~ Firefox first came out, the whole fucking point of it was to be a fast, bare-bones browser, and that people could pick and choose what extra features they wanted by installing extensions. IMO that's the way it still ought to be.
It’s about priorities. Fox the ducking browser first, get market share, THEN you fuck around with random shit.
The luddites were not opposed to technology
That's pretty much what I wrote in the comment box. The options for the multiple choice questions don't really acknowledge that as a preference people might have.
Dude thats not realistic at all. The industry is moving that way and all companies have to follow , if companies dont do they will eventually die , just look at Yahoo , AOL , Phillips , etc barely surviving and nothing what they used to be. Why? Mostly because they were complacent and stay conservative not innovating fast enough.
I don't think that's necessarily true. What I do think is true is that there's a chance some AI thing will be a trillion dollar investment, and the most motivating thing for VCs is fear of missing out on a giant score.
A nonprofit open source profit ought to have different motivations though.
Which of the following best describes your race or ethnic background?
Seriously, WTF? Why the hell is this relevant? Is this some American thing?
I often do surveys online and the American ones always ask this. They like to lump all people who look alike together and don't even bother asking where you're from. They really believe we are split in different species or something.
Yes. The Americans ask this on every form for who knows what reason.
My fav categories are when they ask your race typically: white, black, Asian, Hispanic etc. Lumping insanely large groups together.
Or the one that asks: Hispanic or non-Hispanic.
Typically both are asked. What the hell does the Hispanic specific question answer that the first didn’t
One is asking about skin color, the other is asking about cultural heritage. For example, a person from South America with only European ancestry would be [white, Hispanic], and a Japanese-Brazilian would be [Asian, Hispanic].
The real issue is that they're irrelevant questions that survey-givers have no legitimate reason to want to know.
Male and female are also insanely large groups but I'll never understand why the color of your skin is so important in the land of the free.
just concentrate on making firefox better and fuck all the way off with that ai bullshit.
My Dream would be that they split Mozilla into Foundations for each product and collaborate like Firefox Foundation which has nothing to do with advertising division at HQ