A quarter century of Mozilla

Posted Apr 3, 2023 5:47 UTC (Mon) by ssmith32 (subscriber, #72404)
In reply to: A quarter century of Mozilla by pizza
Parent article: A quarter century of Mozilla

Yup. They're relevant to this user, at least, from back when "firefox" was this new, snazzy thing that was the faster, more broken version of the Mozilla browser (back when it was just "Mozilla"), until now.

They earn they're $25 a month from me!

Sometimes I wonder if the race for "relevance" is really... relevant.

Mastodon did fine before it was "relevant", and has resisted ex-Twitter engineers jumping on the platform, pushing them to add features they "knew" users "wanted", because they couldn't get the equivalence of "want" and "engagement" out of their heads.

Maybe they make less money, maybe they have fewer users, but that's fine. Plenty of open-source projects that build complicated stuff get by with fewer users and less money.

Maybe it will even be better when it's not trying to find money any screwball way it can.

And, yes, Rust. Agreed.

A quarter century of Mozilla

Posted Apr 3, 2023 8:51 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

> Plenty of open-source projects that build complicated stuff get by with fewer users and less money.

Yet none of them produce viable brower. They either produce sorta-kinda-browsers that are not usable on many (most?) web sites or they just wrap browser developed elsewhere with their own bells and whistles.