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by shevy-java 46 days ago
Some mozilla software developer I guess.

They still have not fixed their build system. Meson/ninja or cmake would be alternatives. Nothing to have them abandon mozconfig ... this is legacy code. The rest of the world moved on. Mozilla lives in the past.
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flohofwoe 46 days ago
> They still have not fixed their build system.

FWIW the Firefox build instructions [1] look a lot saner to me than the Chromium build instructions [2].

[1] https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/setup/linux_build.ht...

[2] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/l...

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userbinator 46 days ago
Mozilla lives in the past.

And one would hope they stay there, because all the newer stuff is far more user-hostile.

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goolz 46 days ago
Could not agree more. I am honestly confused by the need for more than what FF/Librewolf offers and have been actively doing frontend for a long time. Plus no hassle with uBlock. And their Focus mobile browser is nice. I have the same complaints about their leadership as most but at least I feel I have some autonomy with their browser.
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