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Mozilla doesn't seem to be interested in this, but I wonder if there are any individual firefox developers with a patreon?
> Mozilla doesn't seem to be interested in this As someone who works on the digital payments/processing side of the house for a charity, I can tell you that accepting designations is a can of worms that smaller charities would certainly want to avoid.
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i find the role of a "ceo" in mozilla as offensive as anything. for that matter any "management" role because it should be devs earning a buck while building cool software. nothing more, no paper pushing "managers" and ceos. why does mozilla need them anyways? who is forcing them to have one?
Mozilla needs a CEO for the same reason all companies need one. I find it disappointing how people grill open source or charity projects over spending money on management or marketing like it’s a waste. Do you think every other company spends this money just for fun? Or that it actually provides value to the business and helps them succeed?
Yeah, put political pressure on technical teams to fuck up — it's a tradition.
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i find the role of a "ceo" in mozilla as offensive as anything. for that matter any "management" role because it should be devs earning a buck while building cool software. nothing more, no paper pushing "managers" and ceos. why does mozilla need them anyways? who is forcing them to have one?
Mozilla needs a CEO for the same reason all companies need one. I find it disappointing how people grill open source or charity projects over spending money on management or marketing like it’s a waste. Do you think every other company spends this money just for fun? Or that it actually provides value to the business and helps them succeed?
If this CEO is providing value, I'm not seeing it.
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> Mozilla doesn't seem to be interested in this As someone who works on the digital payments/processing side of the house for a charity, I can tell you that accepting designations is a can of worms that smaller charities would certainly want to avoid.
The entity working on the browser isn't a charity
To me, one of the biggest news is that is now implemented[0]. [0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...
I wish browser makers gave more attention to implementing form widgets. Natively accessible widgets optimized for the device it's being displayed on? yes please I've been waiting for some of the more advanced options of for ages. is supported but often a bit clunky in its implementation. Hence people don't use them, hence they don't get improved. Some sort of drag and drop reordering widget would be really nice as we…
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...
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Do you know when we can expect .heic?
I thought that .heic has patents on it and is thus not free in some cases. Which I think is an overwhelming reason to bury it and not use unless you have a very good reason to. Having fewer browsers support .heic format would be a benefit -- as it would decrease the chances of the format surviving.
Slightly off-topic but John Gruber has been writing about the new version of Safari[1] (and it's tabs and how they do or don't work) - and he linked back to some posts of his about Camino, which I'd forgotten about. Camino was the Gecko engine from Firefox in a "proper" Mac UI (unlike Firefox at the time, which was their cross-platform XUL UI). I used to use it as my primary browser and I really liked it. What killed…
I still miss Camino's cmd-1, 2, ... short-cuts for items on the menu bar. What a great UI it had.
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Really? So every time you bring in a dependency on a library written by someone else, your software is just a theme or wrapper? I guess that's one way to look at it.
if your python assignment is solved by import solution and some additional fluff (tracking,telemetry and other anti features in Edge's case) did you really do your homework?
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>"hire a full development team that can hopefully catch up and overtake Chrome?" In an ideal world the best browser would win but marketshare doesn't work that way. Microsoft has full time development teams working on Edge and it is just barely chipping away at chrome's dominance. And, in no small part because they pester Windows users to make Edge the default at every opportunity.
The EU should take over Firefox, because the impartial web is a crucial part of everyday life.