With just a few days’ notice, Mozilla terminated my employment this month after leaving me hanging on leave without explanation for several months. My discrimination case against them therefore enters a new phase after this wrongful termination.
https://mastodon.social/@stevetex/112780506720122370
If Mozilla really starts to go downhill, what are the chances we get a Linux kernel-style community fork that we can rely on instead? Curious why that hasn’t happened before – perhaps because Mozilla has always toed the line of not-quite-awful enough?
I just hope we can keep an alternative browser engine alive. Would be nice if some rich person would just set up a funding model that can pay a few devs to keep it going indefinitely without ads or spyware.
Because developing and maintaining an entire browser is a huge task. That’s why we don’t see much competition in browsers (I mean independent browsers). Also Mozilla isn’t doing that bad, the browser is still really good. It’s not the technical side that is a problem, its mostly marketing and the image of Mozilla.
I was excited for it up until I saw what happened. I get the perspective the maintainer might be coming from, but they made a huge deal out of something that shouldn’t have been.
If Mozilla really starts to go downhill, what are the chances we get a Linux kernel-style community fork that we can rely on instead? Curious why that hasn’t happened before – perhaps because Mozilla has always toed the line of not-quite-awful enough?
I just hope we can keep an alternative browser engine alive. Would be nice if some rich person would just set up a funding model that can pay a few devs to keep it going indefinitely without ads or spyware.
Because developing and maintaining an entire browser is a huge task. That’s why we don’t see much competition in browsers (I mean independent browsers). Also Mozilla isn’t doing that bad, the browser is still really good. It’s not the technical side that is a problem, its mostly marketing and the image of Mozilla.
Librewolf is kind of like that. It pulls a lot from Tor
Funny enough
Though with a target of 2026…
Its also sadly maintained by transphobic weirdos
I was excited for it up until I saw what happened. I get the perspective the maintainer might be coming from, but they made a huge deal out of something that shouldn’t have been.
Have you seen the amount of web standards? HTML5 by itself is huge