/tech/ - Technology

Google is throwing a lot of free stuff around.

It's difficult to resist. Mozilla aren't the only ones who are falling for the google siren. Let's hope they wake up from the spell before they crash and capsize.

>taking the best of chrome without the jew

This is an adequate strategy, no point reinventing the wheel, or driving different standards. It still won't help them from bleeding marketshare though.

>>546637

This has happened years ago. Australis theme. Useless features like Chat or Reader. Sometime ago there has been a post here, a screenshot of Mozilla employee explaining everything that went wrong. Mozilla has betrayed their roots and has been gobling down Google penis for long time. Only salvation is Seamonkey or Icecat.

>>546653

Pretty much. Mozilla had the market, they bended to Special Snowflakes and SJWs, and now they're dead in the water, floating on a raft.

>>546622

Google used to be almost all of mozilla's funding, like $100M/yr. Not sure what that's like now but maybe bae just kept suckin

>>546664

It's not even about SJWs or special snowflakes, it's about executives raking in money off a non-profit and totally out of touch with its goals or developers.

>>546622

With web extensions they increase the compatibility, they'll have a bigger set of add-ons that work with Firefox.

And how would Mozilla ever find a sponsor that would give them that amount of money as Google gives. They gotta have connections with Google.

And nobody forced Eich, he left by himself. Eich is an icon, It's like forcing Stallman out of FSF for something.

etc. etc.

/tech/ is shitting more on Mozilla than they deserve, I think.

>>547138

>It's like forcing Stallman out of FSF for something.

Now that the outreach program is out, SJWs are going to force Stallman out of the FSF within 2 years. Remember, I called it first now.

>>546622

webp

>>547145

It seems inevitable

>>547138

Webextensions can't change a browser nearly as much as traditional add-ons can. Stuff like vimperator and noscript simply will not be possible with webextensions. It means that the age of the power-user is over for Firefox. It means that Firefox no longer has any advantage over any other browser. They've sacrificed configurability and freedom for compatability with one of the most malicious pieces of software in existence.

>>546622

WebExtensions are going to be necessary for Sandboxing and Servo.

It has nothing to do with sucking Google cock.

But hey, if you don't want these important security features and what is a major cleanup of the code, you can go use Furfag's browser and enjoy the diverging codebase and less security fixes do to it.

>>547232

>Webextensions can't change a browser nearly as much as traditional add-ons can

And how would you know that, considering they aren't even released yet and the list of APIs is far from final?

>Stuff like vimperator and noscript simply will not be possible with webextensions

Except Mozilla explicitly said that they are working on providing APIs to support those two.

>It means that the age of the power-user is over for Firefox.

Even if it were the case, XUL/XPCOM extensions are still going to be supported for years, it will take over a year for us to even start seeing the switch of internal functions to HTML.

Webextensions≠Chrome extensions, they are going to provide a lot more power to developers, though to be fair we still have to wait and see if that power is going to be comparable to that of XUL/XPCOM.

>>547232

But that's wrong, you fucking retard

https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/Future#.22Superpowers.22

>>547145

>implying they'd kick a jew out

kek

>>547240

Believe what Mozilla writes? Really? They also said at one point that Australis will keep advanced UI customization INSIDE the browser - and then they ripped it out.

Never believe in natural fags, even if they are called Mozilla. Fags stay and will always be one thing... fags.

>>547628

>They also said at one point that Australis will keep advanced UI customization INSIDE the browser - and then they ripped it out.

But they did keep ADVANCED customization inside the browser, it's done via userchrome.css. They only got rid of baby duck basic customization for stupid people.

>>547138

>Eich is an icon

An icon for homophobes to defend their bigoted views under the guise of personal freedom of expression. The icon he deserves to be is "that fucking Javascript guy that's part of the reason web design is such shit".

>>547656

Compared with what you have been able to do without add-ons, even with userchrome.css you can do almost nothing anymore. And even userchrome.css will most likely be removed by Mozilla because it is not compatible with the minimalist and simple concept of Servo.

>>547685

>even with userchrome.css you can do almost nothing anymore

What?

>And even userchrome.css will most likely be removed by Mozilla because it is not compatible with the minimalist and simple concept of Servo.

Retard who doesn't know what he's talking about detected.

userChrome is styling XUL. Browser.html (underpinned by Graphene) is stylable by default and is the only alternative XUL-less project that I can see from Mozilla, so I'm guessing that's what they're planning in the long XUL-less future.

>>547232

>Stuff like vimperator and noscript simply will not be possible with webextensions.

Then why is uMatrix on Chromium better?

>>548006

>Then why is uMatrix on Chromium better?

uwotm8? It's exactly the same as on Firefox. Some of the privacy settings like WebRTC ip leakage protection and localstorage clering work even better on Firefox.

>>547658

>homophobes

fuck off, im gay and i dont support the kind of bullshit that forced eich to leave