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Re: State of Mozilla

#11

It's good that Mozilla is still there to provide an alternative to the proprietary browsers and is fighting for open Internet standards. But the management direction and the aggressive political stance it took in the last years is not really good for the project. Also big kudos for Rust, been playing around with it and it really is a great improvement over archaic languages like C or C++.

I have heard some statements that Rust is bad because of its non-free components such as Cargo.

Re: State of Mozilla

#12
I dont like Brave because of the Crypto stuff.

But they have way better communication around this with more simple tweets and posts of what they ACTUALLY do.

What is even going on, on this page? So much coroprate speak I feel like I am reading my for-profit company intranet page.

Re: State of Mozilla

#14
post #11

It's good that Mozilla is still there to provide an alternative to the proprietary browsers and is fighting for open Internet standards. But the management direction and the aggressive political stance it took in the last years is not really good for the project. Also big kudos for Rust, been playing around with it and it really is a great improvement over archaic languages like C or C++.

I have heard some statements that Rust is bad because of its non-free components such as Cargo.

You heard wrong? https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo

Re: State of Mozilla

#15

I await the usual complaints about Mozilla's side projects as well as the dependence on the search box money from Google. Firefox is never going to be a thing as long as humanity moves from desktops to mobiles where changing the built in browser is very uncommon.

I use FF on desktop and mobile (although FF on mobile crashes on me, sometimes does not refresh etc.- Android)

Re: State of Mozilla

#16
I wonder how many on the Mozilla Board of Directors and Chief Whatever Officers getting paid millions regularly use Firefox vs Chrome or Safari.

Re: State of Mozilla

#18

I await the usual complaints about Mozilla's side projects as well as the dependence on the search box money from Google. Firefox is never going to be a thing as long as humanity moves from desktops to mobiles where changing the built in browser is very uncommon.

I use FF on desktop and mobile (although FF on mobile crashes on me, sometimes does not refresh etc.- Android)

So do I, but I am here with you on hacker news and this site is not a representative sample at all.

I have never had mobile FF crash on me, largely been a good experience.

Re: State of Mozilla

#19
post #6

Is it just me or has Mozilla been taken over by grifters?

Seems that way to me. I remember when Firefox was the market leader in every way by far back when IE was the de facto browser for folks.

Sad to see where they are now… they still haven’t even made containers part of core…

Re: State of Mozilla

#20
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have heard some statements that Rust is bad because of its non-free components such as Cargo.

You heard wrong? https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo

I mean the approval process for packages in Cargo is controlled by vendor.
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