Shooting yourself in the foot, part 53326: Mozilla
Step 1: with bad design decisions one after another (Australis is a shining example of that) slide yourself into irrelevance;
Step 2: when market share goes below some threshold, the main sponsor diminishes (or suspend?) payments;
Step 3: in retaliation, hurt the users by forcing om them a sub-par alternative as a default;
Step 4: profit bleed even more angry users and go even faster into irrelevance.
Brilliant strategy Mozilla!
Myself, I am still using Firefox for the time being, but that's exclusively due to Gecko.
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Agree with you for step 2,3,4, but why is Australis a bad design?
ReplyDeletefor one, because is so close to the Chrome UI, if i would that, i would use Chromium. for another, because it looks alien compared with the rest of my desktop. for yet another, because it removes or makes harder to reach functionality i use.
DeleteOk, now I understand as it is only a matter of taste, my desktop looks like that
ReplyDeletehttp://imgur.com/Cn8jK3D
Do you think is alien?
Functionality, I think is better in firefox than chromium. I was expecting a more specific answer , with perhaps 1 or 2 disadvantages of the new design. Everybody says about the new design that is bad, but in fact it's only a matter of taste.
Thanks
Off: I like your pictures
yes, is alien. the title bar does not match any other app on my desktop, neither that weird menu.
Deletei don't use the new design, except the few minutes when i *have to* use a Windows desktop.
actually a couple of days ago i had to put a Firefox on someone's XP desktop and was impossible to make it look native, no matter what it stands-out, even with the classic theme restorer extension.
Nice post thanks for sharinng
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