Re:Three Mozilla Board Members Resign over Choice of New CEO
by pcwalton on Friday March 28, 2014 @06:59PM
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> Forking isn't a sin. Diversity often a result of forking. Take a look at this graphic[1]. There's a good chance the browser you're currently using is a result of a fork.
Sorry, I think there's absolutely no way to spin the idea that abandoning Gecko for Blink would increase diversity. It's self-evidently false.
Forks lead to more rendering engine diversity than straight-up reskins, I suppose, but much less diversity than actual from-scratch engines. (Incidentally, since Blink is explicitly not designed to be embeddable, "adopting Blink" essentially means becoming a Chrome skin.)
Re:Three Mozilla Board Members Resign over Choice of New CEO
by JohnTHaller on Friday March 28, 2014 @07:00PM
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Firefox has equal share with Chrome and most of the techies I know still use Firefox. Not having every private test URL of stuff you're working on sent to Google is reason enough. I do have several dev friends that use Chrome. They're usually mobile devs unconcerned with privacy (they have everything in Google).
Re:Three Mozilla Board Members Resign over Choice of New CEO
by camus2 on Friday March 28, 2014 @07:16PM
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> Firefox has equal share with Chrome and most of the
>techies
>I know still use Firefox.
> Not having every private test URL of stuff
>you're working on sent to Google is reason enough.
Re:Three Mozilla Board Members Resign over Choice of New CEO
by JohnTHaller on Saturday March 29, 2014 @12:43AM
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Firefox has a separate search box from the URL box for a reason. Every keystroke of the search box is sent to Google so the auto-complete results come up. Chrome has a single box for both URLs and search, so every character of every URL you type is sent to Google. That's the difference.
Re:Three Mozilla Board Members Resign over Choice of New CEO
by throwawaay on Friday March 28, 2014 @07:28PM
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Put up or shut up:
Please provide evidence that Chrome sends private URLs to Google.
I don't think they're unfounded. Nearly every developer I know uses chrome, and chrome dev tools. This wasn't always the case. Market share can be a lagging indicator, i think it's a little short sighted to suggest they're okay. They're not!
Forking isn't a sin. Diversity often a result of forking. Take a look at this graphic[1]. There's a good chance the browser you're currently using is a result of a fork.
Mozilla has to really examine what they stand for. The open web doesn't depend on implementation internals. Just specs, tests, and sensible governing body, and a set of willing participants that don't have unreasonable misaligned interests. They can still promote an open. Perhaps even do a better job of it with the extra resources.
[1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Timeline_...