Did Google Sabotage Firefox?

Re:Did Google Sabotage Firefox? by sebazzz on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @11:51AM (#19683633)

Pocket is a deal, search providers are a deal. All to put some money in Mozillas pocket to allow continued development of Firefox. They can't rely on donations and Google funding alone.

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Re:Did Google Sabotage Firefox? by techntoke on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @12:51PM (#19684233)

Whatever happened to being community-based and developers working on it because they wanted to help build a great application? Why do they even need a corporation giving them money to implement tracking and other features to compromise user privacy and security?

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Re:Did Google Sabotage Firefox? by CharlesColeman on Wednesday April 17, 2019 @01:49PM (#19684785)

> Whatever happened to being community-based and developers working on it because they wanted to help build a great application? Why do they even need a corporation giving them money to implement tracking and other features to compromise user privacy and security?

Browsers being:

1. massively complicated,

2. requiring massive feature support for compatibility with the ecosystem,

3. the biggest attack surface on anyone's computer, and

4. made by people doing huge amounts of work who want to eat.

I don't think we can have a secure, feature-complete, fully community-developed browser unless there's a massive refactor and simplification of HTML and related technologies.

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Re:Did Google Sabotage Firefox? by icebraining on Thursday April 18, 2019 @09:43AM (#19690922)

Pocket isn't a deal, it's a service owned by Mozilla itself.

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