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How did you get pics from inside Mozilla HQ? What a shitshow of a company at this point.
Im grateful to the people there keeping Firefox alive, but at this point they should consider splitting off from Mozilla and maintaining a fork or just joining the librewolf team.
I installed Palemoon because it's more independent from Firefox, having forked longer ago, but what I'm really looking forward to is for a usable browser to come from the Servo project.
@loaExMachina @unexposedhazard I have Pale Moon installed for testing purposes but as a general use browser it's pretty useless on the modern web since the developer REFUSES to allow it to support the Widevine plug-in making it useless for watching streaming video. It won't even load YouTube videos properly.
Not supporting DRM on the web is a concious choice I support, you should have base Firefox for your proprietary tech consumptions
@greywolf0x1 I do use FIrefox. As I said, I only have Pale Moon for testing my own HTML. It's pretty useless otherwise as it is.
The lack of sandboxing is concerning though. Regardless of DRM needs. After all a web browser is basically a JavaScript runtime environment that runs code from all over the web. Having that not be sandboxed is a serious risk, even on operating systems like Linux where applications generally run with restricted privileges.
It would be nice, but they gotta eat.
The one Mozilla executive who agrees with you (that employees should be put ahead of profit) is currently embroiled in a lawsuit with Mozilla over that.
Im 100% certain there is enough funding going to mozilla that is specifically intended to help firefox. All those donors, private and commercial, could/would switch if the public stunt of declaring mozilla a sinking ship is aggressive enough. I dont believe for even a second that more than 5-10% of mozillas money is going towards actual core firefox/thunderbird dev work. Its not cheap to develop im sure, but nowhere near the amount of money that mozilla sucks up every year.
Their finance reports are public. You should look at those, if that's what you believe.