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I just want to point out that you casually dismissed "a few hundred thousand" users whose lives were impacted as a non-issue. This is exactly the type of attit
by forgotmypw17 5y ago
I just want to point out that you casually dismissed "a few hundred thousand" users whose lives were impacted as a non-issue.
This is exactly the type of attitude which gives software dev such a bad rap.
I personally support every single user of my products and never force a new version on them.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y ago> casually dismissed "a few hundred thousand" users whose lives were impacted as a non-issue. I did not intend that. My intention is this: "the cost of maintaining a browser with up-to-date standards and security is enormous". A few hundred thousand users who are unlikely to pay anything for such a browser is just financially not viable.
- I_AM_A_SMURF 5y agoJust to put into perspective, maintaining a full browser (with its own engine etc) costs at minimum $300M/year (judging by the size of Chrome/Firefox/Safari's teams). That means that 300k users would need to pay more than $80 a MONTH to make that sustainable. That's insane.
- eitland 5y agoTwo things: - that would go from my tool budget paid by work as soon as it is better since my browser is my second most important tool. - as mentioned above I propose starting with a soft fork, as set of patches to be applied to the latest Firefox
- forgotmypw17 5y agoYou may find LibreWolf interesting: https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/ https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/