A list of discontinued Mozilla products and services

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Post by avery42 » Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 1:55 PM UTC

A list of discontinued Mozilla products and services
killedbymozilla.com

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Post by joeldo » Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 2:13 PM UTC

Doesn't have quite the same effect as the Google one.

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Post by freebasenic » Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 2:13 PM UTC

I knew someone was going to make/post this when Mozilla discontinued Firefox Send, lol

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Post by BeaglePlaza » Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 2:13 PM UTC

These are amazing efforts. I wish they would open source Firefox Send, I would love to continue the project. Let someone else take it over.

Many of these projects seem like they may have been funded by a specific donor, then when the donor got what they needed from the project, ended the funding?

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Post by eeh » Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 2:16 PM UTC

BeaglePlaza wrote: post #4

These are amazing efforts. I wish they would open source Firefox Send, I would love to continue the project. Let someone else take it over. Many of these projects seem like they may have been funded by a specific donor, then when the donor got what they needed from the project, ended the funding?

https://github.com/mozilla/send

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Post by smcleod » Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 2:16 PM UTC

BeaglePlaza wrote: post #4

These are amazing efforts. I wish they would open source Firefox Send, I would love to continue the project. Let someone else take it over. Many of these projects seem like they may have been funded by a specific donor, then when the donor got what they needed from the project, ended the funding?

Firefox Send is open source: https://github.com/mozilla/send

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Post by toyg » Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 2:16 PM UTC

Some of these are a bit spurious. I mean, Venkman was replaced by Firebug, which was much better. MXR was similarly replaced by DXR.

Unlike Google, which look much more arbitrary in their shutdowns, Mozilla typically kill projects that are already on their last leg, or replace them with something objectively better.

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Post by rusl1 » Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 2:16 PM UTC

BeaglePlaza wrote: post #4

These are amazing efforts. I wish they would open source Firefox Send, I would love to continue the project. Let someone else take it over. Many of these projects seem like they may have been funded by a specific donor, then when the donor got what they needed from the project, ended the funding?

It is already open source https://github.com/mozilla/send

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Post by raspyberr » Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 2:16 PM UTC

joeldo wrote: post #2

Doesn't have quite the same effect as the Google one.

The funny thing is the Google one has google trackers on it and requires JS to view whilst this one has neither.

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Post by avery42 » Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 2:18 PM UTC

Hi HN, this is a quick website I made this weekend. It was super fun reading about older projects and digging up links in the Internet Archive! The list is far from complete (I still have a long list of services I stumbled across to add), please let me know if you have any feedback, or find anything I missed or got wrong. It was difficult to find info on the older items on the list!