My feelings about the Mozilla layoffs

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[–]siriusisness 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

"Without Mozilla, there is only corporate America shipping web browsers. Is this the world we want?"

Didn't they recently take a 10,000 dollar donation from george soros? Go fuck yourselves.

"Mozilla has a heart, something no other browser vendor has"...

lol

[–]happysmash27 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

People are angry at Moz, I am angry at them too. But there is no other web browser vendor out there that cares for you.

Actually, there are NetSurf, Waterfox, and Palemoon, but they are even smaller, and desperately in need of more development. I really wish either Mozilla would bring back XUL, or more people would use Waterfox or Palemoon, because my web browsing experience is becoming incompatible with more and more sites, but I am unwilling to give up well-integrated tree style tabs, a roomy bookmarks toolbar, and addons toolbars.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I used K-Meleon, which probably has even smaller userbase ...

[–]happysmash27 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

It looks like K-Meleon is going to switch to Goanna too, from the Wikipedia page, which is the same engine used in Palemoon. So, soon they will be in a larger combined group of users, which could hopefully bring more support to both projects! (At least from what I understand, as I am only just reading the Wikipedia page now. I only recently heard about it in a screenshot in an article about the web as it was several years ago, which makes sense, given that it's a Windows browser and I've never used Windows as my primary operating system.)

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Actually, there is a new dev that is developing a K-Meleon version with Goanna already.

[–]hfxB0oyA 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There's Brave. I'm really liking it.

[–]Scrubjay 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

When Firefox folds/corrupts too far, I'm going to do everything through the text-only Lynx browser (It only hurts for a little while) and BigAd and BigTech can eat their own trackers and ad-bloat.

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    [–]Scrubjay 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I use it for everything that's reading related, now. In fact, I used it about 20 minutes ago :) Web apps don't tend to work well, of course (like Saidit - though I did try). But I'm getting to where I just care less and less about things that are more about the flash and less about the content. Lynx (or Links2, if one doesn't like the terminal approach) is a great way to distinguish between the two.

    [–]bald-janitor 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Sad day, I really liked their rust implementation and the servo idea. Well there is chromium so maybe that will be decent