Re:Just got this notice from my bank: No more Firefox
by vord1080 on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @06:45PM
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Not sure where you got the idea that the core development team has been cut, Firefox development remains strong. For example, here's a 1,000+ line patch that just landed two days ago.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1779952
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Re:Just got this notice from my bank: No more Firefox
by pipeline_peak on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @06:56PM
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I shouldn’t of said cut, but they did layoff 250 members 2 years ago and among those were the Servo team.
Re:Just got this notice from my bank: No more Firefox
by Twirrim on Tuesday July 19, 2022 @08:19PM
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That's not the core dev team, at all. Servo was a research group, building an experimental browser engine, parts of which did end up transitioning across to Gecko.
Re:Just got this notice from my bank: No more Firefox
by iggldiggl on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @05:17AM
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Some senior core developers were definitively let go, though, e.g. David Baron (who is now working for Google on Chrome instead).
Re:Just got this notice from my bank: No more Firefox
by devwastaken on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @04:58AM
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Look at the tech Mozilla produces, all of it is non portable, exclusively for FF, and is not particularly great.
Chromium can be extended in many ways. V8 can be used anywhere and is what spawned node and the idea of JavaScript server and client side.
Firefox is more like a product that's source available than an open source project made to benefit the ecosystem.
They would do better to finally pony up, reskin chromium, and stop playing catch up.
Re:Just got this notice from my bank: No more Firefox
by pipeline_peak on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @09:14AM
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They really should rebadge Chromium, then they can frolic with Rust UI changes and focus more on what they really seem to care about.