Firefox 75 Released With Flatpak Support, Wayland Improvements

[bachchain]

Top sites now appear when you select the address

Great. How do I turn it off

[uid313]

why do you thanks red hat? They make this because their plataform to make money, not to help you

Red Hat is making their money out of RHEL on servers, not on buttery smooth Linux desktop experiences.

[bug77]

andre30correia Kudos to any company who can make profit on doing the right thing.

Facts about Red Hat:
1) Red Hat are the largest contributor to Linux and Linux desktop.
2) Red Hat offers jobs and career opportunities all the way from entry level jobs to principal positions. Stuff like Wayland and systemd requires decade of experience.
3) Red Hat uses its market dominance to fight unethical CLA. If companies like Canonical or Qt had that position then they would exploit it.

Will you stop this CLA hate already? It's getting beyond tiresome.
There is nothing evil (or even benign) about CLA. Every project is governed by a license, CLA is just one type among many.

[royce]

Just to point out the vaapi video hw decoding support is a first effort and still pretty buggy.

[bug77]

Red Hat is making their money out of RHEL on servers, not on buttery smooth Linux desktop experiences.

Even RHEL needs a GUI in 2020, so a buttery smooth one won't hurt.
But contributions to Firefox are to be commended regardless, the Internet would be in a much worse shape if FIrefox went away.

[TemplarGR]

You are confused. RHEL has never been free. And they are legally obligated to release changes to Firefox code. This is not charity - it's business. Very big business.

If you haven't paid for it, then it is free. And in Firefox's case, it is not "free with strings attached", like most "free" things are. This is free in the most free-er form imagineable "take the code and do what the hell you want with it". We didn't pay Martin for his work, and it doesn't matter if he is a Red Hat employee or not, we still benefit from his hard work, and saying a simple "thank you" costs us nothing, stop being entitled children and recognize this fact.

[andyprough]

If you haven't paid for it, then it is free. And in Firefox's case, it is not "free with strings attached", like most "free" things are. This is free in the most free-er form imagineable "take the code and do what the hell you want with it". We didn't pay Martin for his work, and it doesn't matter if he is a Red Hat employee or not, we still benefit from his hard work, and saying a simple "thank you" costs us nothing, stop being entitled children and recognize this fact.

When was the last time you paid for a web browser? I'm going to guess never. I'm actually old enough to have paid for one. You pay by being the product. You are thanking people for making money off your on-line activity.

[Britoid]

Will you stop this CLA hate already? It's getting beyond tiresome.
There is nothing evil (or even benign) about CLA. Every project is governed by a license, CLA is just one type among many.

I'm gonna agree with 144Hz on the rare occasion that CLAs are bad. They're a one-foot in, one foot out approach to open source development as they allow a company to relicense the project to a closed license and keep future versions non-free. They let a company can claim ownership of an open source project.

There are some exceptions, the FSFs CLA allows them to relicense to future versions of GPL and is optional, and the Qt CLA has a requirement that the Qt company open source their changes or the entire thing gets relicensed to MIT.

The Canonical one, however just lets Canonical relicense the project in the future, which puts other companes and individuals off contributing, you don't see Red Hat requiring a CLA and Red Hat is opposed to them. Canonical/Mark Shuttleworth have even spent money trying to advertise that they're a good thing.

[Cerberus]

Sadly Firefox is still noticeably slower than Chromium based browsers. Even Chromium based Edge recently surpassed Firefox in user share, Mozilla needs to do something about the performance gap and do it quickly.

[andre30correia]

andre30correia Kudos to any company who can make profit on doing the right thing.

Facts about Red Hat:
1) Red Hat are the largest contributor to Linux and Linux desktop.
2) Red Hat offers jobs and career opportunities all the way from entry level jobs to principal positions. Stuff like Wayland and systemd requires decade of experience.
3) Red Hat uses its market dominance to fight unethical CLA. If companies like Canonical or Qt had that position then they would exploit it.

you quote me twice about this defending RedHat, are you paid for them? Or IBM?