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[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 244 points 4 months ago

Maybe that's not bad for firefox.

Maybe less money means less ridiculous side projects and just focus on delivering a good browser.

Algo the lack of google as financial support means they'll rely more on donations, which would mean that they really need to focus on offering a good browser.

I'll gladly donate to firefox if I would see they are really focusing on it.

[-] SankaraStone@lemmy.world 80 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Mozilla (not Google) got rid of the side projects, increased the CEO's salary, and laid off a bunch of employees during the pandemic. It basically got rid of the innovation that could have made Firefox a faster, more secure, and pleasant experience. Rust and Rust-based Servo, as a replacement for Gecko, were two of those side projects. These are the things Mozilla needs to invest in.

Also, I think Mozilla needs to ask the user upon install what the default search engine should be from a list of search engines including Google, Duck Duck Go, Bing, and Yahoo. Maybe the order of those could be arranged based on how much they're able to finagle from the search engines.

The real monopoly is their control over Chrome. That's what they should be forced to split from the company that owns the search engine. Development and design of Chrome should not and cannot be done by the company that runs the search engine and gets its revenue from ads.

[-] WldFyre@lemm.ee 21 points 4 months ago

Google got rid of the side projects, increased the CEO's salary, and laid off a bunch of employees during the pandemic.

How did Google do any of that? Wasn't that all Mozilla Corp?

[-] SankaraStone@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago

Major brain fart/typo, haha.

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Not saying they did, if you're paying for a thing, you a lot of control of that thing.

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