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Count me in. But I'm not so much interested in destructive activity, but positive constructive change. Abandoning FireFox and spreading the word about it would
by madez 9y ago
Count me in. But I'm not so much interested in destructive activity, but positive constructive change. Abandoning FireFox and spreading the word about it would be a good start to gain momentum for browsers that are loyal to the users independently of economic incentives.
Let alone that Mozilla is using marketshare as a metric for FireFox tells me that they aren't the developer I want to have for my browser.
- callahad 9y ago> browsers that are loyal to the users independently of economic incentives ...and how are those browsers possibly sustainable? Creating a browser is incredibly expensive[0]. If you want reasonable compatibility with the de facto Web you have to build atop Chromium, WebKit, or Gecko, the availability of which is predicated on the financial stability of Google, Apple, or Mozilla respectively. By all means, use a third party browser if it better suits your needs, but there's no escaping the hard dependency on the business models you so vehemently oppose. [0]: http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/12/maintaining-independent-browser-is.html http://robert.ocallahan.org/2017/12/maintaining-independent-...
- madez 9y agoThe same could be said about operating systems and many other complex software projects. Advanced video and picture creation and manipulation, for example, and yet we have Kdenlive and GIMP. And we also have Debian and GCC and then some. None of them decided to take the route Mozilla has taken to fuel financial needs. Also, I advocate for not supporting "the web" on purpose. I want to easily share and access information, not "have experiences" in my browser. That makes the goal relatively easy to achieve.