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Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by ReverseCold on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @05:22PM (#22059445)
The minute Mozilla goes bankrupt and Firefox loses funding is the minute the internet is dead. Imagine only having a single client for HTTP (Chrome/WebKit).
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Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by saagarjha on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @05:33PM (#22059551)
Chrome and WebKit are not the same thing. It's actually very similar to saying "C/C++": they've diverged a huge amount.
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Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by baud147258 on Friday January 17, 2020 @12:34PM (#22076941)
Well, it also means you just have to test your web app on one browser. No more compatibility issues!
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Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by C14L on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @07:10PM (#22060333)
Blink. They dropped Webkit some years ago.
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Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by winter_blue on Thursday January 16, 2020 @01:25PM (#22067320)
Blink is a fork of WebCore (a component of WebKit), and not of WebKit itself.
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Re:Mozilla lays off 70 by samantohermes on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @08:52PM (#22060947)
Then we would lose a company that pretends to care about privacy while doing the opposite, thereby allowing actually ethical organizations to grow.
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