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Please don't take this kind of criticism personally. There was a recent blow up from an open source maintainer because he viewed this kind of criticism as a frustration.

Just know that most people understand everything you are saying here. Many things to do, finite amount of time.

I have personal experience of Firefox developers going above and beyond to make high-usage sites work for their users. I know first hand the lengths they will go to when issues affect users. Thank you and keep plugging away.



I'm a long time Firefox user and have no intention of changing. I fully agree but want to make an important distinction. Sometimes people are complaining about development work and sometimes people are complaining about priorities. This is definitely the latter and I do not think it necessarily a developer issue. Firefox does have the opportunity to become so much greater, but it does require a lot of work and time. I'd argue, give the developers the time and resources. I know Mozilla has their hands in a lot of pies, but Firefox is probably the most important one, even if it isn't the most revenue generating one. Firefox is the symbol of Mozilla and it needs to be the best. The developers have proven how much they can change things and make things better. The Rust partial rewrite was nothing short of a success. So I want to see that progress continued and to keep pushing in that direction.




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