Mozilla Done Wrong

By Unknown on Monday, July 09, 2012




Jono DiCarlo of Mozilla has said that the poor execution of the rapid release schedule  has hurt their image and made them look like an "inferior Chrome". The fact is that Mozilla has been systematically harming themselves and their products long before they switched to rapid release. They havent had a good OS X release ever and they seem to be getting worse. For a company that promotes openness and freedom of choice, you really aren't giving me a good experience outside of the Wintel box. Then there is the lack of understanding when it comes to what makes a product great.

After years of aspiring to improve software usability. I've come to the extremely humbling realization taht the single best thing most companies could do to improve usability is to stop changing the UI so often! Let it remain stable long enough for us to learn it and get good at it. There's no UI better than the one you know, and no UI worse than the one you thought you knew but now have to relearn.

Jono DiCarlo

The thing about your UI is that you make stupid changes, not too many changes. A UI should delight me, empower me, and anticipate me. Yours does none of those; it's frustrating, sometimes confusing, and too often it just gets in the way.

Where is the Firefox from my high school years? The Firefox the dethroned IE? I want to see that Mozilla.

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