Firefox Developer: ‘Everybody Hates Firefox Updates’
Found on Webmonkey on Monday, 09 July 2012
DiCarlo has a long and well-argued post on how and why Firefox’s attempts to ape Google Chrome have not only made the browser less usable, but done the very thing Mozilla was trying to prevent — driving people to switch to Chrome.
"Ironically, by doing rapid releases poorly, we just made Firefox look like an inferior version of Chrome. And by pushing a never-ending stream of updates on people who didn’t want them, we drove a lot of those people to Chrome; exactly what we were trying to prevent."
DiCarlo also calls out Mozilla’s user interface designers, arguing that using the rapid release cycle to constantly change Firefox’s interface compounds the problem and user frustration.
This is what everybody has said the moment when this insane race for the highest version number had started, but of course Mozilla didn't listen and decided that they know best what the users want. So now they have the results.