Everybody needs to stop whining and grow up. How much did ANY of you pay for Firefox ever? That's what I thought. Nothing. And now you all bitch and moan about Mozilla and their questionable business plans, past, present and future.
Face it. It's a Google world now. They are the ONLY company that has taken Linux and made usable, performant products for the masses. Android, ChromeOS and Chrome browser. Android may be fragmented but they're not Linux desktop fragmented. ChromeOS even less so. And EVERYONE now is basing their browser on the Chromium/Blink engine. Even Microsoft ditched Explorer/Mosaic for Chromium/Blink.
Hell...Blink is a fork of Webkit which is used by Apple's Safari browser and Gnome Web formerly known as Epiphany.
That leaves Firefox as the only major browser using Gecko now called Servo with Mozilla's move to Rust. EVERYONE else is on Webkit or the fork of Webkit called Blink which is Google/Chrome/Chromium/ChromeOS/Microsoft Edge/Brave Browser/Opera, etc, effing etc.
Unix and Linux have been co-opted by the likes of Apple and Google to make fantastic consumer desktops and mobile devices and by extension have now taken over the open internet browser engines Webkit and its fork Blink to dictate have everything should be developed and rendered on the web. How can little Mozilla compete against the Apple/Google duopoly when no one paid a dime for Firefox ??
Face it. It's a Google world now. They are the ONLY company that has taken Linux and made usable, performant products for the masses. Android, ChromeOS and Chrome browser. Android may be fragmented but they're not Linux desktop fragmented. ChromeOS even less so. And EVERYONE now is basing their browser on the Chromium/Blink engine. Even Microsoft ditched Explorer/Mosaic for Chromium/Blink.
Hell...Blink is a fork of Webkit which is used by Apple's Safari browser and Gnome Web formerly known as Epiphany.
That leaves Firefox as the only major browser using Gecko now called Servo with Mozilla's move to Rust. EVERYONE else is on Webkit or the fork of Webkit called Blink which is Google/Chrome/Chromium/ChromeOS/Microsoft Edge/Brave Browser/Opera, etc, effing etc.
Unix and Linux have been co-opted by the likes of Apple and Google to make fantastic consumer desktops and mobile devices and by extension have now taken over the open internet browser engines Webkit and its fork Blink to dictate have everything should be developed and rendered on the web. How can little Mozilla compete against the Apple/Google duopoly when no one paid a dime for Firefox ??
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