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> Firefox is just a privacy laundering operation for Google Firefox does nothing else? Mozilla does nothing else? You're going way too far, and by joining the

• solardev 2y ago
  I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that Firefox is worse today than it was 15 years ago, and it's because Mozilla pivoted into some sort of failed think tank rather than a browser maker. It's not pitchforking, it's a legitimate frustration towards the tragic downfall of my once favorite browser. I grew up with Firefox and I'm really sad about what it's become. As a user, I'm sick of all the spam and advertising and bundled crapware. Every time I launch it or god forbid download it on a new machine, I'm bombarded with a dozen pop-ups for things I don't want, like whatever the hell Pocket is or a dozen new tab ads. Somehow Chrome, from the world's largest advertising company, still manages to be way less spammy. As a frontend dev, it's been a decade since I've had to resolve any major differences between Webkit and Blink, or Safari and Chrome. But every year, multiple issues with Firefox arise, usually related to graphics performance. Multiple teams and companies I've worked at have deprecated Firefox support because of them, when every other desktop and mobile browser did not have those issues. Shrug. Maybe the mob is justified in this case. Mozilla's mismanagement drove Firefox from global love and popularity into complete irrelevance. When Edge is more popular, you're really doing something wrong...