Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try

Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by a_imho on Thursday June 21, 2018 @03:08AM (#17362803)

FWIW the major factor driving user experience is content blocking. It is good to know the subtle diffrences, but any browser that ships with content blocking enabled by defult smashes the browser with the fastest rendering speed when it comes to actual browsing.

Moz://a could easily ship the best browser on the market if they actually cared about the users, instead of taking Google money and pretending to be a competition.

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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by Y_Y on Thursday June 21, 2018 @03:23AM (#17362869)

If they stopped taking the Google money it would be much harder to pay developers. I think this would be worse overall for the users, and I bet Mozilla thinks the same.

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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by a_imho on Thursday June 21, 2018 @03:52AM (#17362987)

Disagree, there are many ways to financial stability besides taking money from a direct competitor. Are they that cash strapped?

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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by Vinnl on Thursday June 21, 2018 @04:02AM (#17363026)

They would be if the revenue from search engine deals fell away. They've been experimenting with different, user-respecting sources of funding (and still are), but also have to face with enormous amounts of backlash every time they do, so finding alternative funding is not as simple as you make it out to be.

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Re:Firefox is back. It's time to give it a try by bkor on Thursday June 21, 2018 @04:03AM (#17363036)

> Are they that cash strapped?

It's more the opposite. They get a huge amount of money from Google. It's pretty hard to replace. E.g. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation#Financing for a mention + source of 300 MUSD per year.

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