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It can, they just need to approach it not like a big corporation with a multi million dollar a year CEO but as a grassroots project. If something like KDE can
by wolvoleo 9mo ago
It can, they just need to approach it not like a big corporation with a multi million dollar a year CEO but as a grassroots project.
If something like KDE can build a whole desktop on a shoestring budget with some donations, Firefox can too. And I'd gladly donate to it. Problem is I can't because you can only donate to the foundation. And I don't want to fund their dogood distractions, just firefox.
Besides, the search deal will end one way or another. Either Firefox will lose so much marketshare that Google no longer bothers, or the DoJ will finally ban the search deals. Relying on it is ultra stupid.
- dralley 9mo agoWith all due respect a web browser is much more complicated than a desktop environment. Firefox is like 30 million lines of code, much of which is active attack surface. A high performance JIT JavaScript engine alone might be more complex than KDE. Random people can fix UI bugs and contribute to simple desktop apps in a way that they likely cannot in general do with the deep internals of a browser.
- wolvoleo 9mo agoKDE includes a web browser. Which spawned Safari in fact.
- peaseagee 9mo agoAnd Chrome!
- pseudalopex 9mo agoKDE removed KHTML and KJS. Falkon is a QtWebEngine wrapper.
- wolvoleo 9mo agoYeah but they did make it. They just dropped maintaining it because it wasn't really being used.
- pseudalopex 9mo agoKHTML and KJS weren't really being used because KDE couldn't keep them useful.
- ori_b 9mo agoWith all due respect, that's all the more reason to put all the resources they can behind browser development, rather than scattering it across unrelated projects.
- rascul 9mo agoKDE has already created a browser engine, a browser, and a JavaScript engine.
- pseudalopex 9mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814523 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814523
- pseudalopex 9mo agoI like KDE. But their small funding hurts development.
- wolvoleo 9mo agoHow so? I think it's pretty perfect as it is.