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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by quotemstr on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:53AM (#24159528)
The problem is that there are simply no good free browsers that are not Chromium-based or Firefox. It doesn't seem viable or worthwhile to write a web rendering engine from the ground up. We're heading rapidly towards a Blink/Webkit monoculture.
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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by dmitryminkovsky on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:59AM (#24159621)
Why exclude FF? It’s good.
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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by adsjhdashkj on Friday August 14, 2020 @12:20PM (#24159857)
Currently. Though Mozilla is giving no clear plans on continuing the projects importance. If anything it seems Mozilla is planning for an eventual sunset. Hoping to have revenue alternatives for when Firefox is irrelevant and they stop supporting it.

Firing a team building a meaningful advancement in Firefox's tech stack is a big signal, imo.

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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by FillardMillmore on Friday August 14, 2020 @01:32PM (#24160735)
Is it possible that if Mozilla folded or stopped supporting Firefox that the open-source community would continue to support it?
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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by hanniabu on Friday August 14, 2020 @01:41PM (#24160857)
Possible, but not to a sufficient extent to keep up with the ever changing needs.
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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by dmitryminkovsky on Friday August 14, 2020 @12:31PM (#24159985)
Yeah that was devastating this week but maybe it can somehow reverse itself, I don’t know.
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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by whywhywhywhy on Friday August 14, 2020 @01:30PM (#24160713)
Why would we want a continuation of what isn’t working.

Let it die, rebuild from the ruins.

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Re:Google resumes its attack on the URL bar, hides full addr... by quotemstr on Friday August 14, 2020 @12:34PM (#24160035)
It's pretty good, albeit much less good since the old XPCOM extension support went away. (My position is that XPCOM compatibility could have been maintained in a multi-process world through better dynamic object proxying.) But as Mozilla's money dries up, so will Gecko, Servo, and a bunch of other fascinating projects. It's sad. But the web won't stop evolving, so we're going to end up a webkit-only world.
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