You let them oust Brendan Eich. I have no sympathy whatsoever because you let the charlatans into the project and now you’re complaining. Nobody stood up for Brendan. Nobody is going to stand up for you.
I have to wonder, who are you talking to?
Is Firefox Firefucked?
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#32As soon as they bring back XUL I'll go back to supporting them.
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#33What is the next best alternative to throw support behind? I did a very shallow search and the forks of Firefox I found don't appear to be actively maintained.
I see the Waterfox and Librewolf forks mentioned a lot for various reasons.
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#34Firefox's main problem is Firefox users. Seriously, there's nothing but griping about it but it's pretty much the only browser holding back the rendering engine monopoly (intentionally excluding WebKit).
Obligatory thread from yesterday:
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#35I had to stop using firefox because it just wouldn't display youtube videos. disabling adblocking, hardware acceleration, updates, etc. etc. didn't help at all
I don't have this problem.
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#36I just don’t understand the purpose of the Mozilla foundation any more. They’re a non profit? But seem to do the bidding of big tech? I have no sense of what they stand for That plus seeming to chase every hype wave (Crypto, now AI) I just don’t get why I should care about them.
It's just another money redistribution scheme. Some do art ... some do browsers.
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#37A problem is no one is testing their websites in Firefox, so often I encounter websites that don't work, but work perfectly fine in Vanadium.
This basically never happens.
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#38You let them oust Brendan Eich. I have no sympathy whatsoever because you let the charlatans into the project and now you’re complaining. Nobody stood up for Brendan. Nobody is going to stand up for you.
That was the beginning of the end. A symptom not the cause. Once you inject politics into your organization the project is doomed.
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#40Firefox's main problem is Firefox users. Seriously, there's nothing but griping about it but it's pretty much the only browser holding back the rendering engine monopoly (intentionally excluding WebKit).
What is this fad on HN right now? All these people are coming out to criticize Firefox (Mozilla really, not Firefox itself) for their bumbling about the past few years, and now there's a backlash to it, like "these entitled users, oh my goodness" as though holding software companies to a standard is somehow a bad thing?
> as though holding software companies to a standard is somehow a bad thing?
I think some feel they are being held to extremely high standards.
As someone who's avoided the drama, and is a power user, Firefox has been great to me, and continues to be so.