• gedaliyah@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    Why do people love to hate on Firefox? People have been harping on Pocket for years as a waste of resources that hardly anyone uses, but now that they are eliminating it, people are coming out of the woodwork to wax nostalgic?

    It turns out that making a modern browser is a huge, complex task. It’s been said that it is more on par with maintaining an OS than another type of app. Mozilla is not perfect but why are we so quick to let the perfect be the enemy of the good?

    It’s pretty tone-deaf to criticize layoffs on the same article that acknowledges their historic dependence on Google’s rapidly collapsing monopoly. Where is the money going to come from?

    A poorly thought out blog post about the only major browser that isn’t built on Apple, Google, or Microsoft.

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    21 days ago

    I’m not happy with how Mozilla leadership has navigated the ship, but what is the alternative? If Mozilla dies, there isn’t enough funding for one of the forks to take over the browser.

  • Jeena@piefed.jeena.net
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    21 days ago

    Yeah it’s bad. Most of the points made in that article are valid.

    And once Firefox is gone, all the LibreWolfs and IronFoxs are gone too.

  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    21 days ago

    I’ve been using Zen which is nice and has some stuff removed that we don’t want.

    But it’ll only be around as long as Firefox is around.

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    21 days ago

    Regardless of opinions, this article opinion piece is written like by an angry teenage nerd.

    I don’t understand what these angry anti FF people want that keep on having weekly rants on the topic. You are free to not use the software if you don’t like it or the company or whatever. Just move on and be happy.

    I’m getting tired of these haters any time Mozilla does literally anything and there is not a single constructive idea ever but the demand that Mozilla must operate like a benefactor for nerds that do not have to pay for anything ever.

    Damn, I almost wish Mozilla went commercial with FF to fund the development of it just because.

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      21 days ago

      It’s the Register, ranty articles written like a teenager is kind of their brand.