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It does, because Mozilla recently put out a statement saying they were going to add Manifest V3 support to Firefox without removing MV2 support. Their stated re
by somehnacct3757 5y ago
It does, because Mozilla recently put out a statement saying they were going to add Manifest V3 support to Firefox without removing MV2 support. Their stated reason is that MV3's architecture is not robust enough to handle all of MV2's use-cases, ad-blockers being the obvious example.
Firefox has little incentive to nerf ad-blockers, unlike Google. And Google can't flex their default search engine payments to Mozilla without walking into the anti-competitive arena.
- wearywanderer 5y agoFor years I've been reading comments like yours, about Google funding Firefox to stave off antitrust shit but this in no way corrupting or compromising Firefox. All the while, Mozilla executives have been getting rich with that funding from Google while cratering Firefox's market-share. I no longer trust Mozilla to act in the best interests of firefox users. Not when their supposed incompetence just happens to align with the commercial interests of their sole^ benefactor (^ donations to the Mozilla Foundation do not fund Firefox development!)
- somehnacct3757 5y agoI wouldn't know how to tease apart specifically Mozilla's management from the technological currents that shape the browser wars. So I just assume they're trying their darndest to have the best browser. Every ounce of market share they pry from Chrome is market share they get to charge Google rent on. Google happens to benefit as well (as already mentioned), so it seems win-win. I don't really view one as having the upper hand on the other.