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I agree with this sentiment -- Firefox should be a web browser first and foremost and not a social justice blog
Can you point to the social justice blog part?
There's a bit of discussion about it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25838861
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A while back I spent a few weeks figuring out how to configure Firefox to work exactly how I want a browser to work, then months happily using it. Then a big update was released and everything broke. I never bothered to get it working again. And despite claims of performance improvements that came with the release, it still chugged slower than Chrome. I would love to use a browser that I can actually configure how I…
From this perspective, the RPM from one of RedHat's derivatives would be the ideal answer - a long term support release. As far as I know, such lengthy support terms do not exist for any Windows releases. Firefox on RedHat 8 will stay as it is until 2029.
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I agree with this sentiment -- Firefox should be a web browser first and foremost and not a social justice blog
Can you point to the social justice blog part?
https://www.apple.com/diversity/
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/diversity/default.aspx
Have any browser vendors came out as strongly pro-bigotry?
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Tried it just now. From pressing the url bar to the keyboard showing up is a 2 second delay. Overall pages seem really unresponsive.
Out of interest, what hardware do you have? I had a Samsung S7, and the difference between Chrome and FF was minimal (Chrome was slightly faster, but only just). That's quite an old device, but I wonder if somehow it being a high-end device when it was new still counts for something...?
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According to wikipedia he now an "ardent" anti-masker for Covid and now people are trying to get him to step down from Brave browser. Does this guy just not learn?
I don't think supporting a mandate to wear a basic cloth mask is a hill anyone should be willing to die on. I'm fiercely, fiercely pro-mainstream-science, and there's no doubt that proper N95 masks (or better) are very effective against respiratory disease transmission. But mask mandates almost always permit basic cloth masks which lack strong evidence of efficacy. If we're not going to mandate an effective mask, I h…
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Can you point to the social justice blog part?
And more importantly, what rival browser should people adopt if they want to signal that they don't like all this diversity and inclusion stuff? https://diversity.google/ https://www.apple.com/diversity/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/diversity/default.aspx Have any browser vendors came out as strongly pro-bigotry?
I'd suggest Brave Browser
They should focus on saving Firefox. - Cut out all (or at the very least, most) initiatives that don't serve the goal of promoting Firefox's market share or sustainability going forward - Donate the major money drains that aren't Firefox to the Apache Foundation or another worthy custodian - Fire all inessential staff that don't want to work on Firefox. - Get a CEO/upper management that are in it for the passion, not…
"- Get a CEO/upper management that are in it for the passion, not the money" That has to be the first on the list, because that is the prerequisite for everything else. Unfortunately there is no mechanism to achieve this within Mozilla. The people that need to go won't; they've got their trophy titles and they've feathered their nest as they want it. Thus Mozilla and Firefox with it are doomed. Solving that would tak…
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> Firefox is very usable Are you intentionally underselling it or is this what I can expect of Firefox? Because it's not a super awe-inspiring endorsement.
I don't understand what you need. Go and try Firefox. As a person that uses Firefox as a daily driver, both at work and at home usage, I can't recall when I had to switch to Chrome. In 2010, maybe. I don't know what other "awe-inspiring endorsement" you need. Firefox did not save my marriage nor did it make me a million dollars, no.
Don’t tell me it’s “very usable” because I’m going to interpret it as the latter which may or may not be correct.
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Just interpreting what the OP said and not really sure where I stand on the topic, but I think he means that "social justice" controversies have purged asshole devs that were competent developers producing good features and that firefox as a product is not as good due to that. Taking senior engineers off the roster will usually impact the product whether or not they were assholes.
As far as I can tell, OP's talking about the replacement of Mozilla Corporation CEO Brendan Eich, who had an engineering background[0] and was CTO but made a small but controversial donation to an anti gay marriage campaign, with Mitchell Barker, who came from a legal background and was formerly the president of the Mozilla Foundation. At the time this was pretty divisive, because it was a candidate with objectionabl…
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> If Mozilla is just Firefox then why to they need a CEO at all? Why does a web browser need an executive team? It doesn't make any sense to me. Linux doesn't have a CEO. Python doesn't have a CEO. Postgres doesn't have a CEO. It doesn't matter what the top position is called: CEO, the Grand Warlock of Yendor, or Benevolent Dictator For Life. CEO ≈ whoever is in charge and entrusted with enough authority that they ca…
>Or, they could create a Totally-Not-Mozilla Foundation and bring trustworthy old-timers with the right vision on board. Then they could either do a hostile takeover aka LibreOffice, or coax the original Mozilla Foundation into handing over the brand peacefully. And perhaps restart servo development?