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Firefox is back where it was back in like 2005, but instead of fighting IE/Microsoft, it's fighting Chrome/Google. Although now it has a bit more of a checkered
by djsumdog 7y ago
Firefox is back where it was back in like 2005, but instead of fighting IE/Microsoft, it's fighting Chrome/Google. Although now it has a bit more of a checkered record than it once did. Everything old is new again.
I really wish Microsoft would open source the Edge/Titan engine. There can't possibly be any NSCA code in there they don't own the rights too anymore.
- WorldMaker 7y agoAt least Microsoft managed to open source the guts of Chakra before they shutdown Edge. V8 hegemony might be worse for the internet given Node and Electron than Chrome alone.
- zamadatix 7y agoIs there an Electron backing that doesn't use Chromium?
- WorldMaker 7y agoUnfortunately, not one I've seen get past "bare prototype" stage.
- seabrookmx 7y agoI don't think so. There was a port of node that used Chakra instead of v8, but I don't think it's maintained. And this is only one piece of the puzzle.. Electron also relies Chromium itself for rendering so this would probably be a pretty sizable effort.
- fencepost 7y agoI really wish that if Microsoft was going to abandon having their own engine that they'd gone to Mozilla instead.
- dTal 7y agoNo thanks. Keep Embrace, Extend, Extinguish away from my user agent.
- teh_klev 7y agoJeez not this trope(|tripe) again. It's boring and it's tedious. It's in the past. Under different management. Sure MS are no angels, but they seem to be doing far less harm these days than Google/Facebook et al.
- BlueTemplar 7y agoAre you for real? See what has been happening to GitHub for the last year or so...
- teh_klev 7y agoI'll bite, tell me (I already know they were acquired by Microsoft)....?
- BlueTemplar 7y agoDo you think that Microsoft is just doing it out of the goodness of their hearts? And that Open Source, but especially Libre Software, is going to be compatible with whatever they have in mind ?
- CWuestefeld 7y agoYou seem to be saying that an example of MS's evil is what they're doing to github. And what they're doing to github must be evil because they're MS. That's just circular reasoning, you've going to have to provide some concrete argument.
- Dylan16807 7y agoK. But would you please explain "what has been happening to GitHub for the last year or so"?