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by unknownian 4113 days ago
The comments on that site are sickening. Yes, I do not agree with Eich's views. Mozilla owned up to it. Someone should tell them to disable JS everywhere because of Eich.

Plus, Firefox is a community project with more momentum than almost any FOSS project. It won't die.

edit: read that in reverse
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tatterdemalion 4113 days ago
The comments I read took rather a different position I thought - that they believe people should not use Firefox because Mozilla "fired" Eich. Still a sickening position.
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brighteyes 4113 days ago
At the time, Mozilla was savaged by both the far left and far right. Both sides called for boycotts.

The comments in this story appear to be from the right in this case. I guess the left lost interest (not surprising since they got what they demanded, for Eich to be removed - or maybe just leftists don't read that website).

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unknownian 4113 days ago
Oh, I guess I read too quickly. Comments on those sites really are terrible.
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bobajeff 4113 days ago
The article wasn't talking about the browser's development but it's marketshare. To me it doesn't look like they have too much to worry about there. They are still ahead of Safari on the desktop and are still way ahead of Opera.

I don't believe Firefox will ever gain marketshare again but Mozilla still has some time to come up with another bread winner before they've lost relevance. They got some serious technology in the works with Servo and there is still lots room to improve browsing on mobile for those that are paying attention.

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protomyth 4113 days ago
"The article wasn't talking about the browser's development but it's marketshare. To me it doesn't look like they have too much to worry about there. They are still ahead of Safari on the desktop and are still way ahead of Opera."

What's the leading browser on mini-computers and mainframes? Mozilla is not a significant player in mobile and that does not look to be changing and that's where we are headed.

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bobajeff 4113 days ago
Sure, but they still have time before we get there and like I said before there is a lot of room for improvement in terms of web browsing on mobile. There is a reason people prefer to use apps instead of the web on mobile but not the desktop.
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