Past roadmap: to understand the future, look at the past

alefith — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 20:50:38 GMT

Hello, and, as always, thanks for all your work!

I was wondering if it would be possible to get an infographic/data representing the different projects managed by the mozilla fundation, and the number of dev attributed to them, since the beginning.

It would help a lot in the managing of expectations for the bug corrections and new features timeline.

Irrelevant context:

I'm using Firefox on desktop (ever since the Netscape days), and on my android phone (ever since I've had a smartphone), and the overall experience is going from middling to bad. I know I am looking for trouble by deactivating and cleaning all cookies, and the incessant harassment of all website begging me to allow them is far more annoying than the 2 times a month I encounter a broken website. That something I guess I deserve because of my choices. But recently, it's gotten worse: almost every major website believes I am a bot, some of them block me without even checking and some Capcha Challenge me every action I make. It's not my IP, nor an extension: the same happens in private mode, and stops when I switch to chrome.

It looks like the use of Firefox makes you a target for anti bot/spam security filter. It may be some kind of an update to something, I am far from a specialist and cannot guess what, but it looks like it's recent. And like it's not just me:

Suddenly, chrome abruptly rise in popularity starting 6 months ago.

I don't recall a major feature reveal, or any spectacular hype happening. Maybe I missed something, I'm not the sharpest thing in the toolbox.

In my opinion it's a lot of tiny things, of the top of my head:
- the devs testing only for chrome
- the filtering thing I talked about before
- the alphabet platforms doing "improper stuff" that should break the page but doesn't in the in house browser.

Anyway, that brought me to the question: how did this happen? Before I went on my Don Quixote -esque crusade against cookies, social media, and mass personal information grabbing; I was under the impression things were at a status quo: Edge was desperately trying to get an edge, safari was out there with the cult followers, and firefox was stable in the poll.

So... What did I miss?

And that question brings me to the request made in that post.

tl;dr : good decision.

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Past roadmap: to understand the future, look at the past