Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up

Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by qzw on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @07:51AM (#24565870)

Since ChromeOS itself is just a stripped down flavor of Linux, they can hardly just drop Linux support. Unless they also give up on ChromeOS, which is unlikely but not impossible for Google.

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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by jacquesm on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @08:30AM (#24566200)

It would be trivial to stop supporting the linux version publicly while still allowing the ChromeOS one, it's not going to compile for regular linux if Google does not continue to put effort into that.

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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by srtjstjsj on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @08:48AM (#24566349)

It's a one person effort to adjust a few flags to port ChromeOS app to Linux.

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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by jacquesm on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @08:59AM (#24566474)

That's reassuring to know. I don't think I would want to give up linux as my daily driver OS and if there were no current browser for it that would be the end.

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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by fabrice_d on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @11:40AM (#24568323)

ChromeOS graphics stack is not based on Wayland or X11, so if Google decided to ditch Linux and only support ChromeOS, you would have to maintain the Linux graphics port. That may or may not be a one person effort.

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Re:Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay goin... by tyingq on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @08:53AM (#24566407)

I thought that was one of the drivers for Fuschia.

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