Readit NewsMy impression is that this is the reason why they keep losing market share. I never see any positive news about Firefox or Mozilla, and the browser has nothing that would make me switch.
Firefox gained market share because people recommended it and installed it on the computers of friends and family. They seem to have stopped, and its developers don't seem, from the outside, to be interested in doing anything to bring that back.
- An extension system more powerful than Chrome's, which supports for example rich adblockers that can block ads on Youtube. Also, it works on mobile, too
- Many sophisticated productivity, privacy, and tab management features such as vertical tabs, tab groups, container tabs, split tabs, etc. And now it also has easy-to-use profiles and PWA support just like Chrome
- A sync system which is ALWAYS end-to-end encrypted, and doesn't leak your browsing data or saved credentials if you configure it wrong, like Google's does, and it of course works on mobile too
- And yes, LLM-assisted summarization, translation, tab grouping, etc, most of which works entirely offline with local LLMs and no cloud interation, although there are some cloud enabled features as well
The problem is some people prefer an academic lifestyle in exchange for doing performative research.
Yes there are other actors eg politicians demanding performative productivity, but mostly it’s the inmates running the asylum.
Academia is one failed western institution amongst many, and those failures are ultimately directed by the actions of the individuals that comprise those institutions.
Well is there a best current UPPER bound, or at least a "probvious" one?
I really wish Mozilla would focus on addressing some of the numerous user feature requests, rather than whatever the current trend is.
https://windowsreport.com/hands-on-firefoxs-new-split-view-l...
I think there are many things wrong with your assessment of the situation.
First, where does it say in these file managers that they're sorting by alphabetical order? I see that you've specified that you want the files sorted by name, but I don't see that you've specified you want them sorted by name alphabetically. And what does "alphabetical sort" even mean when you're sorting characters which are not letters? What you mean is probably "lexicographical sort".
Second, you admit yourself that users probably want natural sort. Why would you expect these products to do the thing which they know users usually don't want by default? That just seems like bad design to me. They know users usually want natural sort, and you know users usually want natural sort, so why would you expect the default behaviour to be a lexicographical sort?
Third, just like how you've learned to work around the lack of natural sort in poorly designed products of years past by adding leading zeroes, you can just add trailing zeroes to get the lexicographical ordering that you want. Why do you seem to be implying that the latter is more user-hostile than the former? It doesn't make sense to me. A decision had to be made about what sort to use and they picked the one that most people want. Isn't that what we should be expecting in a product that caters to its users?
I see in other comments you've suggested that there should be a separate option for choosing between lexicographical sort and natural sort. But in the past, when lexicographical sort was the only option, why weren't you complaining about it being user-hostile to only have one option then? Why is it only when the default is something you're personally not used to that it warrants complaint? And where do we stop, do we have separate controls for every single sortable string field to determine whether it should be sorted lexicographically or naturally? Or just the name field? Don't you think that is going to lead to interface bloat?