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I think you're assuming too much.

If Firefox disappears overnight, do you think the devs working for it are just going to sit down and twiddle their thumbs? They'll pick another project and carry on.

There are several examples of this happening. MySQL vs MariaDB, OpenSSL, PDF viewers, hell, even Linux can be included here too.

Ah man, shucks.

Oh, I understand. I'm just saying that the reasons were enough for a lot of people to give it a go, me included. You probably had a beefed up machine back then in 2008. I didn't, and launching a browser took several seconds, whereas Chrome launched like in one second or so.

Of course, Chrome started to suck and I came back to Firefox, especially when they caught up with Javascript.

You're comparing board game companies with a laptop manufacturing company, right?

A company manufacturing a laptop like the Framework laptop is not just sourcing parts and assembling them together. There's a LOT of work put in it, way more than some board game.

Their laptop costs in the thousands, and given their (so far) niche market, I can see why it isn't feasible for them to give away these expensive to manufacture machines to community ambassadors.

Everything you said, I've already known. Most people don't care about their browsers/ad-ridden smart TVs (yuck), spying phones, etc, etc.

But the article posted here is not for them. It's for the people who care.

And that's all I'm saying. You pretty much said at the beginning "Who cares?" for which I replied "Well, clearly not you, but other people do care."

My point is that none of those forks have to start from scratch if Firefox disappears. One of them will replace it.

As long as a browser is good enough for browsing the net, I'm okay with it.

I don't need, for example, DRM. If half of the web uses it, and a new browser alternative doesn't support it, then fuck it. The other half is still hundreds of millions of web pages for me to consume.

Sure, but the article author is quite likely not the target audience for Firefox.

I don't follow the relevance of that statement.

"People focus WAY TOO MUCH on space rockets! I don't care about them that much!"

"Ok, that means the article is not for you."

"Sure, but the article author is not the target audience for space rockets."

Okay?

Chrome was so lightweight and fast when it was launched. And it had a blazing fast Javascript engine. No other engine came close to it.

It was a pretty awesome browser back then during the "do no evil" era of Google.

Why?

Not true.

Navigator died a horrible death, and Phoenix (later Firefox), being a fork of it, survived just fine.

That was after the reddit migration. Lemmy was much better before the reddit doom-and-gloom gang made themselves home.

FUCK U.S. politics creeping in every non-US politics thread.

You're being downvoted by clueless people.

At that point the forks will become its own thing and depart from Firefox.

Which is ironically and exactly how Firefox came to be.

Netscape fucked up Navigator, some folks forked Navigator and created Phoenix - which then was renamed to Firebird, then Firefox. And somewhere in that timeline the Mozilla foundation ditched Navigator in favor of the fork.

So what you're saying is, you're not the target audience for the article.

And how much do these products you're an ambassador of cost?

And are these new start-ups, or mega-companies?

Thanks.

Don't worry about comments about washing machines at home, because they absolutely have nothing to do with the discussion about a shared laundromat.

That was one strike, and the dirty underwear comment counted for two strikes and now he's out.

I don't think the issue is with strangers taking clothes out of a machine that just finished. That would be a weird behavior indeed.

The issue is with you leaving the laundromat, go for a cup of coffee, return two hours later when the cycle finished 55 minutes ago, and whining that your clothes were removed.

Oh.