Firefox Cannot Be Trusted at the Hands of Today’s Mozilla Management

Re:Firefox Cannot Be Trusted at the Hands of Today’s Mozilla... by nyx-aiur on Thursday August 05, 2021 @03:18PM (#28078235)

In the near future Firefox is just another Brave, Opera whatsoever. I am just curious how long some poor souls work their heart out in the engine room until the management inevitably forces the switch to chromium.

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Re:Firefox Cannot Be Trusted at the Hands of Today’s Mozilla... by luckylion on Thursday August 05, 2021 @03:26PM (#28078330)

According to statcounter.com, Firefox is already on the level of Edge and Samsung Internet, with 3.45% market share globally. US: even slightly lower at 3.44%, down from 4.3% a year ago. Europe is still higher, Germany at 12%, France at 7%, but also falling rapidly.

The future is now.

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Re:Firefox Cannot Be Trusted at the Hands of Today’s Mozilla... by troyvit on Thursday August 05, 2021 @03:35PM (#28078455)

Yeah and the future is a monolithic browser stack controlled by one one of the largest corporations in the world.

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Re:Firefox Cannot Be Trusted at the Hands of Today’s Mozilla... by phendrenad2 on Thursday August 05, 2021 @03:30PM (#28078392)

Agreed. However, as you can tell from the downvotes, that will alienate a lot of people who believe that by using a Chromium fork, you're somehow giving over control of the web to Google. Which is ridiculous, as Google has lost control of the Chromium project due to Brave and Edge butting their ugly heads in. It's now the Linux kernel of web browsers. Prove me wrong.

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Re:Firefox Cannot Be Trusted at the Hands of Today’s Mozilla... by coldacid on Thursday August 05, 2021 @03:34PM (#28078450)

I'm ready to just give up entirely on HTML/CSS/JS on HTTP when that happens. Fuck monocultures.

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Re:Firefox Cannot Be Trusted at the Hands of Today’s Mozilla... by wayneftw on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:27PM (#28079270)

Yeah, every Linux distro is just terrible now because of the Linux kernel monoculture.

Chromium is ~5 million lines of open source code. That's so unwieldy and impossible for anyone but Google or Microsoft to maintain right?

Meanwhile the Linux kernel is ~28 million lines.

Oh wait, there's also a Brave. Didn't they announce that they will not implement parts of Chromes manifest v3? Crazy how Google has so much control over open source code.

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