Re: My usability experience - Asa Dotzler should be fired

On Aug 16, 4:48 pm, Simon Kissel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > I'm both in the power user and enterprise camp
>
> > Ah. OK. So not really representative of most Mozilla users? That's
> > useful information for this discussion and this usability newsgroup.
>
> Ahaha! Hooray, so now I'm in the same group as Google and IBM!
>
> You ARE aware that Firefox became a mass thing mostly due
> to the viral actions (telling their friends, family, non tech-savy
> co-workers) of power users / it guys / nerds, yes? You are aware
> that lots of people will use the browser at home they are used
> /got got learn at work? What do you think will happen once in
> our company the IT guys replace Firefox. What browsers will
> the non-tech-guys switch to at home?
>
> According your statements Firefox is no longer meant for
>
> - Business users
> - Enterprises
> - Users that have Firefox provided by their OS
> - Power users / nerds / it guys / developers
> - IBM
> - Web developers or website owners
> - People who need to know what software version
>   they are running
>
> OK, understood. According to you Firefox now officially
> is a browser only targetted at my grandma, with an UI
> focus on giving my grandma an experience similar to
> Chrome.
>
> And I guess your long term plan is to piss people off until you are
> the
> last user left of Firefox 73. Which features only one hardcoded
> URL, but no adress bar or other distracting things, but
> leaks 200 MB RAM per second, which is only not causing
> crashes because every 5 minutes a new don't-call-it-version
> is downloaded and Firefox restarted.
>
> Epic WIN ;)

Kudos on the irony above.  Spot on.

I can't find any professionals who agree with the decisions of Mozilla
around Firefox now that we see the impact.

I still want Asa to explain how the insight of billions of user's who
can't tell the difference between firefox and android OS are going to
contribute more to the integrity and usability of the platform than
the hundreds of thousands of people to whom he OWES EVERYTHING.

I also agree that while losing Asa might be a blow to Mozilla from a
product management standpoint, losing his "voice" would benefit them
greatly.  I fear however, that as he pointed out, the problem runs
deeper...

Now we see the impact of the decisions earlier this year... a browser
that is no longer usable by the most influential and powerful users in
the world... seriously - a major release cycle shorter than a
quarter?!?!  What planet are they from?  The risk of adopting such a
platform is just too great for someone trying to be seriously
productive.

Epic Marketing FAIL.