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Re:"Much" of the Rust/Wasmtime team hit by layoffs at Mozilla by liujy on Thursday August 13, 2020 @01:12PM (#24145646)
> Bundle their browser in a leading operating system.

What’s the alternative here? I can’t imagine opening up a new computer and not having some kind of web browser pre-installed.

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Re:"Much" of the Rust/Wasmtime team hit by layoffs at Mozilla by estebank on Thursday August 13, 2020 @01:46PM (#24146026)
https://www.blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/prese...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrowserChoice.eu

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Re:"Much" of the Rust/Wasmtime team hit by layoffs at Mozilla by esperent on Thursday August 13, 2020 @01:34PM (#24145895)
It takes about 2 minutes to download and install a browser. Most operating systems already expect an internet connection when you're installing them, it would be easy to add a screen saying "select which browser you want" as part of the process.
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Re:"Much" of the Rust/Wasmtime team hit by layoffs at Mozilla by nitrogen on Thursday August 13, 2020 @02:08PM (#24146275)
For slow connections, some of that space currently allocated to bloatware should be reassigned to browser choice.
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