🔗 David Sommerseth on Nostr: npub1ywyvc…fcksd That was a dark read. And I so much hope you're wrong in this ...
npub1ywyvcvvkchy6g2udk5n79zzc78jm6nl4gqhy2jttkl7pwtszt75qrfcksd (npub1ywy…cksd) That was a dark read. And I so much hope you're wrong in this being the end of Firefox.
Maybe it will be the end of the Mozilla corporation as we know it, that would be good. Greedy, money focused managers will struggle to properly manage any open source projects. Unfortunately, it seems the Mozilla corporation is failing to grasp this.
If I've understood it correctly, it is the Mozilla corporation which funds the Mozilla Foundation, which is the key driver of Firefox. So maybe that foundation need to reestablish itself.
The world need more web rendering engines to compete. Today, Chromium and Firefox seems to be the biggest ones. But Edge, Brave and Vivaldi has opted for the Chromium engine. IIRC, even Safari has its roots in WebKit, which is where Chromium also comes from - but Safari is also primarily available on macOS and iOS. Not that many other has chosen the Firefox engine, except the TorBrowser probably. You could probably include Thunderbird too, but that's still a bit different.
We need more rendering engines just to avoid the issues we got with IE dominating the market for quite a bit. That hurt all other platforms than Windows most of all. With Google dominating the browser market, there are more than enough possibilities to compare the situation with how IE grew to dominate. What is different this time is that Chromium is multiplatform by design.
I do hope there will be organisations and contributors willing to pick up and continue to work on the legacy of Firefox, if Mozilla collapses. But I do hope more the Mozilla Foundation survives and gets a better corporate management in their back, ensuring they can progress better.
Maybe it will be the end of the Mozilla corporation as we know it, that would be good. Greedy, money focused managers will struggle to properly manage any open source projects. Unfortunately, it seems the Mozilla corporation is failing to grasp this.
If I've understood it correctly, it is the Mozilla corporation which funds the Mozilla Foundation, which is the key driver of Firefox. So maybe that foundation need to reestablish itself.
The world need more web rendering engines to compete. Today, Chromium and Firefox seems to be the biggest ones. But Edge, Brave and Vivaldi has opted for the Chromium engine. IIRC, even Safari has its roots in WebKit, which is where Chromium also comes from - but Safari is also primarily available on macOS and iOS. Not that many other has chosen the Firefox engine, except the TorBrowser probably. You could probably include Thunderbird too, but that's still a bit different.
We need more rendering engines just to avoid the issues we got with IE dominating the market for quite a bit. That hurt all other platforms than Windows most of all. With Google dominating the browser market, there are more than enough possibilities to compare the situation with how IE grew to dominate. What is different this time is that Chromium is multiplatform by design.
I do hope there will be organisations and contributors willing to pick up and continue to work on the legacy of Firefox, if Mozilla collapses. But I do hope more the Mozilla Foundation survives and gets a better corporate management in their back, ensuring they can progress better.