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> When and how do you think Mozilla will ever do anything to help the web? Firefox helps the web. MDN helps the web. Mozilla SSL Configuration Generator helps
by fletchowns 5y ago
> When and how do you think Mozilla will ever do anything to help the web?
Firefox helps the web. MDN helps the web. Mozilla SSL Configuration Generator helps the web. Mozilla has helped the web and continues to do so in so many ways. I think they'd be on the short list of who has helped the web the most.
- dralley 5y agoLetsEncrypt was bootstrapped by Mozilla. Mozilla research contributed large amounts of research and development of Vorbis, Opus and AV1. Dav1d, Wasmtime, Wgpu, Asm.js which later turned into WebAssembly. "rr", the reverse debugger. Rust, obviously. The list continues.
- mftb 5y agoExactly. We're just seeing Rust spun out of the Servo effort, does anyone really doubt that Rust can and will be used to write code that will benefit the web? Most importantly Mozilla helps the web just by keeping FF going. Conversely Mozilla if you see this, this change is dispiriting. Including ads in Windows is literally the MS move that caused me to leave Windows for Linux a few years back. It's not the ads themselves or how they are presented that is the issue. It's the inevitable tracking that will follow on to increase the ads value. I'm not going to leave FF immediately over this change, but I am going to investigate what tracking comes with it and ultimately I'm determined to not let my computer and it's software be turned into a device for surveilling me rather than a tool for my use.