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by nerdponx 1207 days ago
Stupidity is only ever acceptable when it agrees with business objectives. Malice is the sensible default assumption when money is on the line.
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"Break it but make it look like a mistake" /s
I wouldn't even use sarcasm here. It it is literally an actual and important part of the history of Microsoft:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code

Money isn't on the line w.r.t. to Firefox Nightly. I don't even think real money is on the line w.r.t. to Firefox entirely.

We may love it, but Firefox is a big fat nobody in the browser space of 2023.

Well, everyone is a nobody compared to Chrome at this point. Google has been extremely effective at taking over this space (enormous engineering team implementing new standards far faster than others can keep up, marketing (including on google landing page), poor/selective support for other browsers on the major platforms of the web that they wrote, install by default on 90% of the world's phones, pay for install by adobe and other products long ago).

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worl... 7% firefox, 10% safari, 11% edge.

By the measure of desktop browsers, Safari and Edge are nobodies too, and that is even with Microsoft's browser being a chrome skin and preinstalled on Windows.