Ok so what we need is a Mozilla alternative, yo EFF; What are you upto ?
Actually how about SeaMonkey
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2025
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It would hurt badly at the beginning, but it would be better in the long run if Mozilla were to lose that Google search payment. Take some of the financial hit out of the c-suite comp package. Let those more interested in tech industry CEO money go work for the likes of Google, etc. Mozilla should be looking to attract someone whose singular motivation is not money.
Mozilla outage going to take a 90% hit to their income without going all-in on ads and user tracking.
You think the heads salaries/bonus/lobbying budget will be the first to get axed if google money goes away?
No, I don't think that is where the cuts will be. But it should be.
This really sucks. I JUST swapped over to Mozilla about a week ago.
Use librewolf then or any other FireFox fork. It's not that deep, keep a level-head
Okay, it just sucks to swap again so fast. It's not that deep.
Edit: love the downvote for saying your line back to you.
Wasn't me, but let me downvote you anyway. Like what will you swap to ? Suckless browser 😂
Yeah. I've been using Firefox for the greater half of my life. I'm bummed out.
it's not a shitty take; google signed a contract with mozilla and google should have to honour it.
if you want mozilla to be less reliant on outside income... DONATE TO THEM.
yes. body this fuckin post.
To have 90% of my donation money syphoned away into the CEO?
Not to mention the CEOs or Mozilla brought in no apparent value. The company and products have been on a clear decline but compensation packages are higher. Its fucking stupid.
I've been donating for a while. Not pleased to learn about the lavish CEO pay. Probably going to stop.
yeah, mozilla hasn't had to worry about actually giving a fuck and that's rotten them to the core
I've become sincerely disappointed with them. I hope they reconsider their choices but I don't have much hope.
Maybe making a browser doesn't need to be so damn expensive. Let the web standards freeze so we aren't constantly chasing shiny things. The browser is in a really good spot today. What else does it need to be?
A non-exhaustive list:
- creating a webpage has gotten too complicated and time-consuming
- accessibility, light/dark, should be a browser-feature, not something each.single.webpage has to implement
- monetization is an ongoing issue
- browsers need to do too much, are too complex and monolitic
- lots of duplication of software/system tasks in the browser, like process/memeory-management. But on webpage-side too, like video player, see point 1 and 2. Called inner-platform effect
I'll be honest, I booted up a laravel project through herd and I've got a testing environment setup for the let go.
There's a ton of stuff I still want to be supported, especially web assembly.
But for most things, yeah, we could probably slow down a bit.
Hardly surprising, looking at how many former google and Facebook employees are in Mozilla’s management.
Any sources for this?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Hanna https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/leadership/#jenny-choo https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/leadership/#lindsey-obrien https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/leadership/#tamara-greasby https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/leadership/#linda-griffin
Here’s a few
Libre Wolf isn’t bad.
Can that continue to function if Firefox dies? Like, is it independent to where it will develop web platform features on its own?
I’ll be honest, outside of tabs, I can’t think of much that has improved with browsers in the past few years.
Oh, no no, I don't mean the UI of the browser, I mean web platform features, like JavaScript APIs, JavaScript language features, and CSS features and such.
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