> It is not a matter of expertise, but a matter of setting priorities and valuing projects. I value MDN and Firefox. I am fine with every other aspect of Mozilla dying to save those two.
This is a terrible sentiment, even if the only thing you actually care about are those two products.
As long as most people use Firefox to access websites run by Google, Mozilla is screwed. Google uses both overt and covert methods to drive Firefox users to switch to Chrome. For Mozilla to maintain the Firefox userbase, they have to get them to browse other websites.
Pocket is an obvious attempt at that, by providing a time-sucking website that works great in Firefox, isn't run by Google, and is relatively cheap to run (read: it's not video).
What surprises me is that Facebook wasn't advertising Firefox. I know that sounds stupid, but back when Google+ was a thing, Facebook was stuck competing with a vertically-integrated solution from the browser (Chrome) all the way to the social network (Google+). That seems like a terrible situation to be in, and Chrome's only worthwhile competition on Windows at the time would have been Firefox.
This is a terrible sentiment, even if the only thing you actually care about are those two products.
As long as most people use Firefox to access websites run by Google, Mozilla is screwed. Google uses both overt and covert methods to drive Firefox users to switch to Chrome. For Mozilla to maintain the Firefox userbase, they have to get them to browse other websites.
Pocket is an obvious attempt at that, by providing a time-sucking website that works great in Firefox, isn't run by Google, and is relatively cheap to run (read: it's not video).
What surprises me is that Facebook wasn't advertising Firefox. I know that sounds stupid, but back when Google+ was a thing, Facebook was stuck competing with a vertically-integrated solution from the browser (Chrome) all the way to the social network (Google+). That seems like a terrible situation to be in, and Chrome's only worthwhile competition on Windows at the time would have been Firefox.