I have no sympathy for GAFAM, nor for Mozilla.

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  • FOSS solutions like OnlyOffice and LibreOffice will work fine for 95% of people out there

    That’s true. no doubts. However, problems may arise when you need to work collaboratively on documents with other people that mainly use MS products and won’t even think to change their workflow for the sake of “freedom”. Personally, I have encountered minor UX annoyances in OnlyOffice, such as the convoluted way to resize images in presentations (you need to open “Advanced Settings” every time…) and the a-bit-messy interface for equations. Another inconvenience arose when I inserted a short video in a presentation, which didn’t later work (didn’t even show) in PowerPoint. These aren’t extremely severe issues, but may slow down productivity a bit. On the other hand, in LibreOffice Impress inline equations aren’t still available, which is something that somewhat lowers its potential utility in some scientific fields. Workarounds are available, but they are obviously a bit time consuming.

    I’m not complaining, mind you. I know that “free as in freedom” may come with minor inconveniences. But for a lot of people the hassle of finding/applying funny workarounds may be a big annoyance.



    • I won’t bother thinkering with CSS which break with updates
    • Users shouldn’t be in charge to fix Mozilla’s fuckups. That’s how you loose 70M users since 2019
    • The only semi-valid reason people often give to use FF is uBlock Origin. I wonder how many of these FF loyal users would still stay on FF, should uBlock Origin disappear. Would you? At this point, it looks like FF is just an extension for uBO, rather than the opposite.
    • Last but not least, for a lot of reasons, I’ve grown increasingly pissed off with Mozilla, so I simply refuse to give then more underserved market share (after being a user/supporter/advocate for almost 20 years).