it should be “We need to focus on the browser” -> lays off employees and pushes feature requests to the open-sorce volunteer community to fill as they see fit.
Firefox should only exist to be a standards-compliant browser (not part of the Google ecosystem). It should not be using Google WebExtensions or a Google manifest. Anything beyond the bare minimum of compliance with the W3C’s published standard should be a community made addon or plugin.
Addons are important though, and they fucked with developers quite a bit in the past. Making the developers start over again is probably going to piss them further.
Absolutely right. It shouldn’t collaborate with any for-profit entity, or non-profit entity captured by for-profit entities. Everything should be about maintaining the base engine at compatibility to open standards, and pushing everything else to either the community or volunteers in the non-profit.
it should be “We need to focus on the browser” -> lays off employees and pushes feature requests to the open-sorce volunteer community to fill as they see fit.
Firefox should only exist to be a standards-compliant browser (not part of the Google ecosystem). It should not be using Google WebExtensions or a Google manifest. Anything beyond the bare minimum of compliance with the W3C’s published standard should be a community made addon or plugin.
Addons are important though, and they fucked with developers quite a bit in the past. Making the developers start over again is probably going to piss them further.
Oh, I agree. We’re past the point of no return now. Our only hope lies in Ladybird. I’m holding out hope for that engine, though only slightly.
Ideally, it should also not collaborate with companies like Meta to manufacture consent about in-browser tracking for ads, i.e.
https://www.w3.org/community/patcg/
(You can’t say “PATCG” without saying “patsy”…)
Absolutely right. It shouldn’t collaborate with any for-profit entity, or non-profit entity captured by for-profit entities. Everything should be about maintaining the base engine at compatibility to open standards, and pushing everything else to either the community or volunteers in the non-profit.