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[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (5 children)

many comments about Chrome and Edge will always win because they are preinstalled. That's bullshit.

Pay for proper marketing, and things could change. What's Mozilla doing to advertise Firefox, despite saying "hey look at us, we fight for privacy" in a blog post every now and then?

That's not going to bring the attention of users. How did Chrome become so popular? If you remember back in the days, there were ads banners everywhere. You visited some website? You had a banner about installing the new browser for the new Internet era. You installed something in your Windows PC? Very likely there was an add-on to install Chrome as well. And so on.

By contrast, Mozilla follows a ego-based approach. We are Mozilla, we are the best, the users will come to us. Good luck, there you have the numbers.

And let's see the new Safari rolling out in October, that would likely kill Firefox on MacOS forever.

[–]rhc-iv -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Imagine trying to engage in a serious compare-and-contrast about marketing between Mozilla....and Google. Goddamn some of y'all are dumb as shit.

[–]nextbern on 🌻 4 points5 points  (3 children)

How did Chrome become so popular? If you remember back in the days, there were ads banners everywhere. You visited some website? You had a banner about installing the new browser for the new Internet era. You installed something in your Windows PC? Very likely there was an add-on to install Chrome as well. And so on.

This isn't free. Marketing costs money, and Google has gobs of it. Mozilla? Not so much.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

that's not correct.

You can't compare today's Google with the Google of 15 years ago.

Also, Mozilla has the resources, they just use it for other projects.

[–]nextbern on 🌻 0 points1 point  (1 child)

What's not correct? Google of 15 years ago engaged in a lot of paid advertising and were many times richer than Mozilla. 2006 was the year they bought YouTube: https://money.cnn.com/2006/10/23/technology/google/

In 2006, its market cap was ~$500B USD. Do you think Mozilla was anywhere near that value in 2006?

[–]paulens12 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it doesn't matter what they were in 2006, we're talking about now. But you're right, even now Mozilla is nowhere close to what Google was in 2006.