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Re:Firefox 68.0 by catacombs on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @12:16PM (#20393360)
> Now they are going to kill extensions in Android FF, which will kill the only non-ideological reason my family is using it - for the adblocking extensions.

I'm guess enough ad-based companies with deep pockets finally bullied Mozilla hard enough.

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Re:Firefox 68.0 by Ygg2 on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @12:27PM (#20393495)
Looking at Mozilla IRC at the time, the reason wasn't bribery, but something way more basic.

Did you ever support an old SOAP server made in '90, that had a lot of bugs, that was slow as hell made of molasses, and was vulnerable to several security exploits?

Now imagine you have millions of users demanding, speed, security and those XML add-ons , I mean servers.

Basically Mozilla decided to ditching the old system in favor of the newer one, was the best choice at the time.

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Re:Firefox 68.0 by catacombs on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @05:29PM (#20396824)
> Looking at Mozilla IRC at the time, the reason wasn't bribery, but something way more basic.

I wasn't saying bribery. I'm talking about bullying through other means.

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Re:Firefox 68.0 by Ygg2 on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @06:08AM (#20400574)
Either way, the results were linked to Firefox overall performance, rather than caused by outside agent.
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