Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy

Re:Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy by em-bee on Thursday February 08, 2024 @11:36AM (#39304039)

And you can say "oh it's still Chrome!" but - Chromium is FOSS, and to me, it shows that Brave focus on what matters (data privacy) and not on what doesn't (writing their own HTML, CSS, JS engine)

but avoiding a browser monoculture does matter. having all browsers built on chromium is a serious problem given the way google treats chrome. see the latest decisions regarding extension support and adblocking all of which will end up in chromium. do you think brave will have the resources to fork chromium to avoid those changes?

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Re:Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy by shp0ngle on Thursday February 08, 2024 @01:41PM (#39305760)

Pick your battles... easier to cherrypick your own stuff on top of already existing codebase. At least you need to worry only about a small patchset rather than own rendering and js engine just for a very abstract concept of "avoiding monoculture", and instead of focusing on CSS rules and JS optimization and whatnot, you can focus on things that matter for your goals

it's not my fight though. If Mozilla thinks burning all these resources on their own engine is a good thing then, burn ahead. there are worst things to burn money on in the end. and it's not my money...

At least rust came out of all that.

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Re:Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy by EasyMark on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @03:23PM (#39362365)

But firefox works fine for me, and if the can continue to make a quality browser then they should keep doing it.

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