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I'm confused. I thought Mozilla has a really shitty market share. Everyone just cares about Chrome? And I assume this plugin wouldn't work in Chrome (does it)?

I'm confused. I thought Mozilla has a really shitty market share. Everyone just cares about Chrome? And I assume this plugin wouldn't work in Chrome (does it)? How does a web player plugin come close to destroy a company that builds a graphic engine? I thought they make their money with licenses for game developers? So far I understand your usability complaints, but this seems to go a bit far. At least without sources, couldn't find something myself. Mozilla all but destroying Unity because of their plugin/addon policy seems .. unlikely?

ars 9y ago
> And I assume this plugin wouldn't work in Chrome (does it)? It used to - till Chrome disabled NAPI, but for a while you could reenable it, till eventually it was removed altogether. It used to work on all browsers, then one by one it stopped working, Mozilla was the last straw. The company has pivoted, so I guess they'll be all right, but their thing was a 3D graphics that worked everywhere. Now it's 3D graphics that you can build for many platforms - similar, but not exactly the same. One nice thing about the web plugin was that it worked on Linux, and very few other 3D games worked on Linux, unless specially written for it. > Mozilla all but destroying Unity because of their plugin/addon policy seems .. unlikely? Yah, I'm going to far. Mozilla was the last straw rather than the main insult. I blame Mozilla because Firefox was what I used, I didn't really notice when it stopped working in Chrome (other than some posts urging people to install Firefox, which I thought was cool). But today, right now, there are still a ton of Unity Web games that will soon be unplayable by anyone not running old code, and I find that sad, that all that work is just gone, destroyed. Read this: http://www.ocsmag.com/2017/04/29/kde-vs-gnome-design-philosophies/ http://www.ocsmag.com/2017/04/29/kde-vs-gnome-design-philoso... I want Mozilla to be like KDE, not Gnome.

ars 9y ago

> And I assume this plugin wouldn't work in Chrome (does it)? It used to - till Chrome disabled NAPI, but for a while you could reenable it, till eventually it was removed altogether. It used to work on all browsers, then one by one it stopped working, Mozilla was the last straw. The company has pivoted, so I guess they'll be all right, but their thing was a 3D graphics that worked everywhere. Now it's 3D graphics that you can build for many platforms - similar, but not exactly the same. One nice thing about the web plugin was that it worked on Linux, and very few other 3D games worked on Linux, unless specially written for it. > Mozilla all but destroying Unity because of their plugin/addon policy seems .. unlikely? Yah, I'm going to far. Mozilla was the last straw rather than the main insult. I blame Mozilla because Firefox was what I used, I didn't really notice when it stopped working in Chrome (other than some posts urging people to install Firefox, which I thought was cool). But today, right now, there are still a ton of Unity Web games that will soon be unplayable by anyone not running old code, and I find that sad, that all that work is just gone, destroyed. Read this: http://www.ocsmag.com/2017/04/29/kde-vs-gnome-design-philosophies/ http://www.ocsmag.com/2017/04/29/kde-vs-gnome-design-philoso... I want Mozilla to be like KDE, not Gnome.