Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope
by paulryanrogers on Saturday December 16, 2017 @11:05PM
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At a high level the needle hasn't moved much. But even little movements do add up. I'd rather not go back to a web before fuzz testing, fewer accessibility standards, and password managers. Not to mention AOL and its kind dividing the world into disconnected, walled gardens.
Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope
by jstewartmobile on Sunday December 17, 2017 @01:51AM
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I don't know how your year 2000 was, but in my year 2000, I had broadband, no AOL, and a functioning web browser (which was not IE or Netscape), that could:
* Display web pages * Show images * Play songs and videos * Deliver applications (via Java instead of Javascript, granted) * Download files, and more!
Almost anywhere outside of NYC and SoCal, $400M is still an epic shitload of money.
Some guy posted here a week ago in wonderment over how Mozilla can maintain a browser for a mere $400M+ a year. $400M+ a year!!!
If it takes that much engineering to deliver something which is not substantially different than what we were using 17 years ago, I'd count that as an engineering failure.