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This is a time of change for the internet and for Mozilla. From combatting a lethal virus and battling systemic racism to protecting individual privacy — one thing is clear: ...

This includes the entire Servo team which was working on its next generation web engine that was supposed to be Firefox's ticket to staying afloat in the future. Servo also popularized the Rust language afaik

Aside from Servo, they also axed the entire threat management team, because why would a browser need threat detection and incident response, amirite?

Relevant links:

https://nitter.snopyta.org/directhex/status/1293352458308198401

https://nitter.snopyta.org/MichalPurzynski/status/1293220570885062657

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24120336

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24128865

  • companero [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Mozilla is essentially the only thing that is stopping Google from being in complete control of web standards. Chrome, Edge, Opera, Brave, etc. all use Blink, Google's browser engine.

    So yeah, this is very worrying.

    • AresUII [des/pair]
      ·
      4 years ago

      I used Vivaldi for a month when FF75 came out.

      Then Lichess broke and I found a userChrome hack that fixed the address bar.

      • shyamalamadingdong [he/him]
        ·
        4 years ago

        Vivaldi works mostly great but is proprietary and I reaaaally don't want to use a proprietary browser, especially a blink one