Giving people the ability to shape the internet and their experiences on it is at the heart of Mozilla’s manifesto. This includes empowering people to ch
I feel that Mozilla is making the case for the exact remedies being discussed. If they didn’t have financial entanglements with Google, they might still make the same choice, to offer Google Search as the default. However, substantial sums of money are at play. That, coupled with a lack of upfront choice for users (e.g., a first-run pick list), undermines Mozilla’s entire position here. It’s hard to believe they would be advocating to keep Google Search as the default if those large sums of money weren’t at stake.
It is also disingenuous at best to equate choices being present elsewhere (search bar drop down) with the default choice when a user hits the enter key. That part bothered me quite a bit.
I’m a daily Firefox user since before it’s 1.0 release, outside of some limited attempts with Chrome and Safari over a decade ago. Mozilla’s choices recently, including this defense of Google, have made me begin considering alternative browsers, even though there are so few user-respecting ones.
Mozilla’s choices recently, including this defense of Google, have made me begin considering alternative browsers, even though there are so few user-respecting ones.
That shows well what I said in my own comment, that Mozilla doesn’t know for whom it wants to be. It doesn’t know if it wants to be for long-date users, like you and me; or for a new target audience; or for its own shareholders; or for advertisers; or for Google. So it sends mixed signals in all directions, and pisses off all of them.
I’m also considering to drop Firefox. Similar reasons.
I feel that Mozilla is making the case for the exact remedies being discussed. If they didn’t have financial entanglements with Google, they might still make the same choice, to offer Google Search as the default. However, substantial sums of money are at play. That, coupled with a lack of upfront choice for users (e.g., a first-run pick list), undermines Mozilla’s entire position here. It’s hard to believe they would be advocating to keep Google Search as the default if those large sums of money weren’t at stake.
It is also disingenuous at best to equate choices being present elsewhere (search bar drop down) with the default choice when a user hits the enter key. That part bothered me quite a bit.
I’m a daily Firefox user since before it’s 1.0 release, outside of some limited attempts with Chrome and Safari over a decade ago. Mozilla’s choices recently, including this defense of Google, have made me begin considering alternative browsers, even though there are so few user-respecting ones.
That shows well what I said in my own comment, that Mozilla doesn’t know for whom it wants to be. It doesn’t know if it wants to be for long-date users, like you and me; or for a new target audience; or for its own shareholders; or for advertisers; or for Google. So it sends mixed signals in all directions, and pisses off all of them.
I’m also considering to drop Firefox. Similar reasons.