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Mike Kaply
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Mike Kaply writes Mike's Musings, a personal blog at mike.kaply.com about programming and systems. Since 2011, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Understanding the corporate impact (of upgrading Firefox)”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on Firefox's Rapid Release model and its effect on corporate deployments, including Mozilla's stance on enterprise users and the need for a stable branch.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Understanding the corporate impact (of upgrading Firefox)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-06-23
What Hacker News says?
Firefox's current problems go back to around 2011, and you can see this in the trend graphs. At that time, there was still a hot three-way race between Chrome, Firefox, and IE. But Mozilla made a misstep: they decided that, to compete with Chrome, they would adopt a new "Rapid Release" model. This resulted in a massively pissed-off base of former supporters and articles like "Rapid-release Firefox meets corporate ba…
Comment linking /2011/06/23/understanding-the-corporate-impact/
on “State of web browsers in 2018”Submitted Understanding the corporate impact (of upgrading Firefox) as a story · 68 points
HN discussionA marked change of stance from the following? "Mike, you do realize that we get about 2 million Firefox downloads per day from regular user types, right? Your “big numbers” here are really just a drop in the bucket, fractions of fractions of a percent of our user base. Enterprise has never been (and I’ll argue, shouldn’t be) a focus of ours. Until we run out of people who don’t have sysadmins and enterprise deployme…
Comment linking /2011/06/23/understanding-the-corporate-impact/
on “Firefox's enterprise support version has now been released”Submitted An Enterprising Future as a story · 1 points
HN discussionActually it's unclear by reading this blog post alone what are you trying to say. It becomes clear if people read the end of your previous post[1] where you say: "For corporate deployments, there has to be a stable branch. I bet someone is probably going to make a nice business out of creating and maintaining a stable branch…" 1. http://mike.kaply.com/2011/06/21/firefox-rapid-release-proce...
Comment linking /2011/06/21/firefox-rapid-release-process/
on “Understanding the corporate impact (of upgrading Firefox)”Submitted The Java Debacle - Firefox reverses the block as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAm I the only one that is skeptical of the quote in Mike's post [1]? "Managing 500,000 corporate users" seems a bit outlandish to me considering that only one corporation in the world seems to have more than half a million employees period. I am not so sure that Wal-Mart has 500,000 corporate users who are affected by browser upgrades. [1] Linked in the article but http://mike.kaply.com/2011/06/23/understanding-the-…
Comment linking /2011/06/23/understanding-the-corporate-impact/
on “Corporate users we don't care about you - Says Mozilla”