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"And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth.
by flomo 1y ago
"And the beast shall come forth surrounded by a roiling cloud of vengeance. The house of the unbelievers shall be razed and they shall be scorched to the earth. Their tags shall blink until the end of days."
> from The Book of Mozilla, 12:10 (about:mozilla)
And now Mozilla is being scorched to the earth. The End.
- atemerev 1y agoI don't know, I still use Firefox as my primary browser.
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- shawn_w 1y agoI don't know how people can use anything else, especially now that Chrome doesn't support ad blockers.
- trallnag 1y agoIt still supports stripped down as blockers. For the casual user something like ublock lite is probably perfectly fine
- skeeter2020 1y agoif you switch between chrome and FF (say work/home) the difference are glarring though...
- bonoboTP 1y agoCurrently you can still reactivate the ad blocker extensions, it's a bit hidden behind a three dot menu and you have to confirm a scary warning but it's still possible to run u lock origin at the moment. They might disable the workaround later though.
- flomo 1y agoRoot for the illegal Google monopoly then, because that's what Mozilla says they need to survive. (It's over soon.)
- bornfreddy 1y agoI assume you were being sarcastic? I see it the other way around - the sooner Mozilla gets off the drugs^WGoogle's money the better the chance we get a proper competitor to Chrome.
- cubefox 1y agoThe opposite will happen as they lose most of their funding. They will have to fire most developers and switch to chromium, to become yet another Chrome reskin. Congratulations, you killed Firefox.
- ripdog 1y agoUm, so, how are Mozilla supposed to get the hundreds of millions of dollars a year it costs to pay engineers to maintain an evergreen browser without Google's funding?
- bornfreddy 1y agoHow did they survive without their funding before they got it? And don't say that web standards are much more complex nowadays - yes, they are, because it is in Google's interest to make them such. Will it hurt? Yes. Will Firefox survive? I hope so. Is it a bad idea? No.
- joshuaissac 1y ago> How did they survive without their funding before they got it? They were initially Netscape, a commercial company, so they had money from their customers. After the browser code base was handed over from Netscape/AOL to the Mozilla Foundation in 2003, they got donations from AOL, IBM, Red Hat, etc. which kept them going for a few more years. The Mozilla Foundation signed the deal with Google two years later, in 2005. In short, they survived first on commercial revenues and then from donations, neither of which are substantial now.
- psychoslave 1y agoSame here, but this is in spite is the governance of the foundation looking so out of rails and simultaneously lake of better alternative I'm aware of with both better governance and fine enough technological state.
- bitwize 1y agoSeamonkey is still out there. The rot hasn't touched the Seamonkey foundation, in part because only like, my dad uses, or has heard of, Seamonkey. Seamonkey is pretty much the descendant of the OG Netscape Communicator codebase. So it's kind of on topic for retro Web stuff.