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Rust taking over the world would bring Mozilla the same sort of income that "Java taking over the world" brought SUN. It's fundamentally irrelevant, in the grea
by toyg 5y ago
Rust taking over the world would bring Mozilla the same sort of income that "Java taking over the world" brought SUN. It's fundamentally irrelevant, in the great scheme of things, because monetising a programming language has always been very hard (and now all competitors are free, they've effectively been commoditised).
I don't think they're "ruining" FF; if anything they're again entirely focused on it after a decade spent in the wilderness throwing money at doomed efforts. But they seem somewhat lost on their actual mission, and make it very hard to like them. Mozilla is not about making a browser, nor it is a social-justice charity. It should be a beacon of public interest in the darkness of everyday commercialisation of the web. The browser should be a mean to that end, not the be-all of the company.
- charcircuit 5y ago>if anything they're again entirely focused on it after a decade spent in the wilderness throwing money at doomed efforts But what features have they really added lately? I looked over the the change logs over the last year and the only notable new features to the browser was a theme color wheel and adding search results (Ctrl + F) showing up on the scroll bar. It doesn't seem like they are innovating the browsing experience.
- toyg 5y agoThey're focusing on monetising the browser experience as a whole, with services like the VPN - not necessarily on pure browser features. It's still more than they were doing in the FFOS years.