[thrown_22]

>Look Mr. Government, we're not a monopoly. We have a competitor! *

*Who were funding and have neutered to the point where they've lost 90% of their market share in the last 10 years. Have fired all their developers and are spending the money on spending that looks a lot like what GFX did.

Mozilla is a dead weight around the neck of the internet. The best thing that can happen is that it dies and something new, run by people who actually make things, is created again.

When was the last time anyone was excited about a firefox update?

[speed_spread]

Updates to existing browsers should not be exciting. I actually dread Chrome updates because they keep taking useful stuff away.

[dzikimarian]

> Mozilla is a dead weight around the neck of the internet.

How exactly are they dead weight?

[stjohnswarts]

They aren't. People got made because moz removed the XUL free for all and never got over it.

[gamjQZnHT53AMa]

The people you are imagining that can make things exist wether it not Mozilla exists. And no one is successfully making a browser project to rival Firefox. So no, I think that isn't the best thing

[thrown_22]

Firefox is sucking up all the donations for such browsers. So no, them dying would make a thousands flowers bloom.

[boomboomsubban]

Yep, thousands of browser engines would surely bloom from the $7 million a year Mozilla makes in donations.

[thrown_22]

A dozen at least, yes.

[boomboomsubban]

The idea that some other group could do better than Mozilla with like ~1/500th of the budget is silly.

[thrown_22]

The idea that Mozilla spends 1/500th of its budget on firefox is wrong. Just look at their fillings.