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Re:Vivaldi 2.0 – includes sync, resizable tab tiling, floati... by _Codemonkeyism on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @08:27AM (#18075193)
I have nothing against political work, but I think they should just give money to the EFF instead of doing their own - they are much better at the job, imagine what they would do with 300M$.

And FF should focus on the browser because this is their cash cow, and progress is needed. But as the declining usage numbers show, FF employes just do what they want, riding FF to death then jumping ship to raid the next project. As a longtime FF user (25y) you're just left in the dust.

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Re:Vivaldi 2.0 – includes sync, resizable tab tiling, floati... by shady-lady on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @08:39AM (#18075294)
Exactly. Employees who get to engage in the theatre of running a software company with 0 risk.

They need an oversight committee (from outside the valley preferably)

Anybody got the breakdown on community commits to FF vs. employee commits?

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Re:Vivaldi 2.0 – includes sync, resizable tab tiling, floati... by gsnedders on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @08:46AM (#18075346)
> Anybody got the breakdown on community commits to FF vs. employee commits?

Last time I saw anyone try to do this, it was vastly predominately employee commits (this isn't that surprising, there are hundreds of people working full-time on Firefox at Mozilla, and very few spending a comparable amount of time per day in the larger community); it's hard to get exact numbers because determining whether a commit is by an employee or not is hard (e.g., there's no requirement for employees to use Mozilla email addresses for their commits).

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Re:Vivaldi 2.0 – includes sync, resizable tab tiling, floati... by the_duke on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @10:26AM (#18076241)
Left in the dust? I have no idea what you are talking about.

Current Firefox is better than ever for me.

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Re:Vivaldi 2.0 – includes sync, resizable tab tiling, floati... by _Codemonkeyism on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @11:43AM (#18077090)
Tab management is as bad as ever, I need to turn of spy configs all the time to still use it, it broke most of the plugins I used etc. etc.
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