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To the people recommending Firefox. I would if they decided to support the modern web. Start supporting Web Bluetooth/USB. Have a Firefox based version of elect
by worldmerge 5y ago
To the people recommending Firefox. I would if they decided to support the modern web. Start supporting Web Bluetooth/USB. Have a Firefox based version of electron. Make it easy for people to make forks of your browser engine (there a ton of chromium based browsers, not a lot of firefox based ones). Oh, and NodeJS uses Chromium's JS engine. Mozilla lost the fight for the modern web. I want competition but I don't see how Mozilla is going to be it, maybe another browser engine will come.
- jasonhansel 5y agoThe reason why it's so hard to make forks of Firefox is that it's available under a copyleft license. But that copyleft license is the only thing stopping it from being commercialized and turning into Chrome.
- detaro 5y agoWhy does the license make it hard to fork Firefox?
- worldmerge 5y agoFrom this comment on the Firefox subreddit, seems like Gecko is just too hard to work with. https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/m8cwdu/why_arent_there_many_firefoxbased_alternatives/grgrbej/ https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/m8cwdu/why_arent_t... And not related to their license.
- nicole_express 5y agoI find it exceedingly unlikely another browser engine will come; not even Microsoft finds it worthwhile to keep up with the dizzying array of standards Google is pushing as required for the "modern web".