undefined | Better HN

0 pointsrobocat7y ago0 comments

> Google can drop millions of dollars on a browser -- and few other companies can afford to do that. Certainly not Mozilla.

Mozilla Revenue: US$562.3 million (2017)

And personally I don't think it is just money. As a developer, I feel that the whole Chrome dev team are astoundingly competent developers. Mozilla has their bright spots, but overall I feel they struggle to compete technically in some areas.

0 comments

PostOnce7y ago

I don't doubt the technical competence at all, I doubt the management.

for example, we now have https://screenshots.firefox.com/ so that I can store my browser screenshots In The Cloud. The developer hours are going somewhere, to Screenshots, or Pocket integration, or taking away unsigned extensions, or whatever. It's not that the devs can't make something better, it's that management doesn't think that's the best investment of time?

bscphil7y ago

They're sunsetting the cloud storage for screenshots, so I would suggest a better description would be that Mozilla management likes to spend time digging holes and refilling them.

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2019/01/24/clarifyin...

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse