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like Google and apple - they use exact locations of WiFi hotspots most of the time...
That’s not something a webpage can access.
You'd think that Mozilla has an excess of funding and has covered absolutely all needs in the browser space leading them to branch out like this... but the browser really needs a lot more hands and funding, I honestly can't make sense of this. And Fakespot: they present themselves as a company that focuses on detecting AI-generated content from human-generated content. It sounds like they've set out to play Whac-A-Mo…
> but the browser really needs a lot more hands and funding I had been using Firefox since 2002, when it was called Phoenix. I switched to a Chromium-based browser because the performance difference was noticable enough, and I am in the browser often enough, to finally throw in the towel and switch. They have a huge amount of money coming in from Google. Why is this going to acquisitions like this and not towards str…
So firefox now is.. a worse chrome reskin. I use both daily and firefox is just not that good.
Mozilla foundation is completely not interested in getting firefox fixed to have its competetive advantage back - and to be the customizable browser.
I guess they are just happy to spend money on travel and side projects -> they just boost their CV to jump ship somewhere else.
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Genuinely asking: Why do you think Firefox is outperforming Chrome / Safari in your opinion?
Firefox mobile allows me to use uBlock Origin. That alone for me is worth more than any other browser features combined. Now, if I can find how to make it stop opening a new tab every time I enter an URL in the address bar instead of reusing the current tab, the experience would be blissful.
Is this what you're after?
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>This feels like a good long term vision for Mozilla. >The browser wars are basically over and why is that? Oh because Mozilla hasn't put any energy into getting better or pulling back market share from the moment it started to bleed out to Chrome. Let's not just sit back and go "Oh well, they lost nothing they could do" shrug . They built their tech in such an obtuse and opinionated way it's impossible to integrate…
Bias disclaimer: I've worked on Chrome and Edge, opinions strictly my own >and why is that? Oh because Mozilla hasn't put any energy into getting better or pulling back market share from the moment it started to bleed out to Chrome. Could and should Mozilla have done better? Yes. "Any energy?" is uncalled for, however. There was the entire Quantum rewrite for significant performance boosts (around the time Chrome sta…
Firefox was "the" customizable browser with great ad-block.
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To me - as a long term FF user and Mozilla critic - it looks like: Spend money on everything except browser development (>$5 billions!). Market share down the drain. Use the market share as an argument for a lost cause and spend money on everything except Browser development. Ladybird - a browser spearheaded by one person - will expose Mozilla of what it is.
Firefox the browser is still a great piece of software, literally unique, and also open-source. Do you think any other company / organization would be able to take over it / fork it and develop it adequately? If so, where would they get the money? Many high-profile open-source projects (e.g. Python, Blender, well, Linux itself) managed to secure corporate sponsorships or donations in a much less toxic way than the Mo…
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> It sounds like they've set out to play Whac-A-Mole against the all the biggest AI companies in the world. That's exactly what they're doing with the biggest ad trackers and browser vendors. A lot of Mozilla's "side-projects" are stupid and I also agree they should focus more on Firefox, but this one is pretty in line with their general mission of "we'll fight the big guys because, if we don't, nobody else will".
Didn't Rust originate as a Mozilla side project? Or maybe I'm misremembering and they were just one of the early adopters of it in Servo.
It was a Mozilla side project, but with Servo, totally in line with its mission of making a good web browser. I'd even say it was a necessary long term plan. Chrome was the better, more modern browser, and Firefox needed fundamental improvements like these to compete. If anything, I think they should have spent more energy on Rust and Servo, not less.
I guess I'm in the minority in that I love Fakespot as a tool to determine the "real" review scores of products on Amazon and other online shops. I get tired of the "1000 reviews, 5 stars" that turns out to be pure garbage. Instead, I find that half of the very amazing 5 star, 10k reviews products are rated a C, D, or F. I think it'd be great to have this integrated into the browser and be able to get a sense for wha…
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> but the browser really needs a lot more hands and funding I had been using Firefox since 2002, when it was called Phoenix. I switched to a Chromium-based browser because the performance difference was noticable enough, and I am in the browser often enough, to finally throw in the towel and switch. They have a huge amount of money coming in from Google. Why is this going to acquisitions like this and not towards str…
Firefox now is chromium too. They switched some time ago. So firefox now is.. a worse chrome reskin. I use both daily and firefox is just not that good. Mozilla foundation is completely not interested in getting firefox fixed to have its competetive advantage back - and to be the customizable browser. I guess they are just happy to spend money on travel and side projects -> they just boost their CV to jump ship somew…
You may be thinking about Microsoft Edge, which switched from EdgeHTML to Chromium in 2020.
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Firefox the browser is still a great piece of software, literally unique, and also open-source. Do you think any other company / organization would be able to take over it / fork it and develop it adequately? If so, where would they get the money? Many high-profile open-source projects (e.g. Python, Blender, well, Linux itself) managed to secure corporate sponsorships or donations in a much less toxic way than the Mo…
Firefox is not unique. It is a reskin of chrome now.
It's an entirely different rendering engine, and an entirely different JS engine.
You must be mixing it up with MS Edge.
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Ouch. They must've wished that they kept that stock for a few more years.
If Microsoft had held onto it, their investment in Apple would have been more profitable than anything else Microsoft did in the past 20 years.
Heck, maybe investing hundreds of millions in Apple today would, in X years, be worth more money than spending marketing money / development budgets for new features for their own products; or worth more than investing in OpenAI and related products - but it's not exactly something anyone would suggest Microsoft should do (in terms of just becoming a shareholder, of course there could be collaborations without changing this point).