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Re:Endangered Firefox, the State of Mozilla by bzb6 on Friday December 11, 2020 @09:20PM (#25394718)
Mozilla had an alternative to Electron and they dropped it before Electron was born even. Who do we have to blame if not them? Their priorities have always been wrong.
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Re:Endangered Firefox, the State of Mozilla by pjmlp on Saturday December 12, 2020 @04:55AM (#25397133)
Any developers using it, yes that also includes the likes of VSCode.

The priorities of anyone that uses Electron are the ones that are wrong, picking developer comfort instead of what is good for users or the Web.

Use a daemon with local browser or the OS webwidgets.

Yes it is more work that coding against Chrome APIs, but that is the whole point if one cares about the Web in general, otherwise those developers could just update their CVs to ChromeOS developer.

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