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Firefox UX: On Purpose: Collectively Defining Our Team’s Mission Statement (blog.mozilla.org)

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (11 children)

We plan to run programmatic research to reduce risk in decision-making so that users benefit when our stakeholders translate user insights into product development.

What the hell is that supposed to mean?

Edit: I see the point of studies, which are not needed. But especially, feeding users stuff their stakeholders want, is a crazy thesis.

Their users are their biggest stakeholders, arent they? Or is it Google?

That phrasing tells me its Google.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (3 children)

It means they want to use telemetry to understand which features are used, to change how they deploy features. Since it's related to investment I wouldn't be surprised if it means more intrusive stuff like Pocket rather than their subtly irritating changes to bookmarks being worked out better.

I don't need feature developement streamlining based on user surveillance. I need options to disable features which are built based on a serious user feedback system if I don't need them.

Best thing about Floorp is how it lets you swap between layouts of the browser itself to me

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

You got me curious, but now I’m puzzled:

The source code for Floorp is mostly public

What does it mean by “mostly”?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Fake open source idk. Look i put up with a lot of shit from cutting edge japanese developers

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