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Upgrades of Windows 10 reset the default browser to Microsoft's new Edge browser, and this has caused Mozilla CEO Chris Beard to issue an open letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella:
[T]he update experience appears to have been designed to throw away the choice your customers have made about the Internet experience they want, and replace it with the Internet experience Microsoft wants them to have.
[...] We appreciate that it's still technically possible to preserve people's previous settings and defaults, but the design of the whole upgrade experience and the default settings APIs have been changed to make this less obvious and more difficult. It now takes more than twice the number of mouse clicks, scrolling through content and some technical sophistication for people to reassert the choices they had previously made in earlier versions of Windows. It's confusing, hard to navigate and easy to get lost.
Firefox's market share continues to drop by varying degrees according to analysis by Martin Brinkmann of ghacks.net.
takyon: Microsoft reports that 14 million users took the plunge and installed Windows 10 yesterday. Microsoft has stated it wants Windows 10 on 1 billion devices within the next 3 years.
(Score: 5, Informative) by PizzaRollPlinkett on Friday July 31 2015, @12:26PM
Note to clueless Mozilla CEO: Get the plank out of your own eye before you worry about the mote in MS's eye.
Firefox has been on a steady downward spiral and is about to crash into the cliffs of Dover. You need to level off your own flight and get some altitude before you worry about anyone else. Firefox has had its UI ruined completely in recent years by one bone-headed decision after another. People were rejecting what you did to your browser long before Windows 10. You're not listening to your core users. When you ignore the people who made you what you are, then things have gone wrong and it's time for some soul searching.
(E-mail me if you want a pizza roll!)
(Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Friday July 31 2015, @12:43PM
This is how applying for jobs is called nowaday?
Gosh, we've evolved some length past the "leveraging synergies", haven't we?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 31 2015, @01:00PM
This is how applying for jobs is called nowaday?
I've heard tales of large internet companies harvesting the souls of their employees and customers alike. So I guess "soul searching" is recruitment and marketing at the same time.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Phoenix666 on Friday July 31 2015, @03:30PM
I don't understand what all the hate about Firefox is about, honestly. I installed Vimperator to map vi's keys onto the interface and now the browser behaves exactly as it ought to.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday July 31 2015, @06:21PM
Note to clueless Mozilla CEO: Get the plank out of your own eye before you worry about the mote in MS's eye.
Generally I would consider the Anti-Trust conviction to be the plank, and UI changes you disagree with the be the mote. But hey, to each his own...