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Mozilla's CEO is not enthusiastic about Microsoft's switch to Chromium:
When Microsoft announced that its Edge browser would be revamped using Chromium, the internet's response was generally quite positive. Edge is far from the worst browser on the planet, but it's certainly not what we'd call a fan favorite. As such, even the slightest indication that it could be changed significantly would have been welcome news for many.
However, it would seem that "many" doesn't include one individual in particular: Mozilla CEO Chris Beard. In a blog post published today, titled "Goodbye, EdgeHTML," Beard expressed his frustrations with Microsoft's decision.
"By adopting Chromium, Microsoft hands over control of even more of online life to Google," Beard writes in the post. "This may sound melodramatic, but it's not. The "browser engines" — Chromium from Google and Gecko Quantum from Mozilla — are "inside baseball" pieces of software that actually determine a great deal of what each of us can do online."
Microsoft's switch to Chromium could be a big boon for Google's own implementation.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @06:34PM (2 children)
This 2 year old post on that other site is revealing:
https://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8836539&cid=51642315 [slashdot.org]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday December 09 2018, @11:39PM (1 child)
I once spent well over an hour trying to figure out what had become of my Status Bar as well as how to re-enable it. Eventually I somehow managed to clue in to that FF had auto-updated itself despite that every single time I install it, I specifically disable auto-updates.
I always update manually because I always archive every single binary I ever install. Mostly for bug regression but also so as to counteract such gems as completely _removing_ the Status Bar.
And Oh it's not actually _called_ the "Status Bar" which is why I wasn't getting any search hits for that well over an hour.
I needed that status bar back because it's where an Add-On that I depend on for my livelihood appeared.
Eventually I stumbled upon a discussion between a South Asian web developer and a Mozzila PropagandaBot. That South Asian developer as well depended on whatever the hell they called the status bar for his own livelihood. The PropagandaBot would always reply something to the effect that "You don't need to thank us for butt-fucking you, we enjoyed the experience too."
I mentioned that the victim was South Asian to remark upon his particular Gem of terminology: he was also griping about "The Pile Of Elephant Droppings Menu". Most know that as the menu with the icon consisting of three horizontal bars.
"Pile Of Elephant Droppings". What a lovely turn of phrase!
Good Times.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @07:14AM
I still haven't managed to get chrome to show http in the urlbar.
Is it REALLY that hard or bad to include an option to show the protocol?
A few times now I've been staring at a blank page in Chrome wondering wtf is wrong only to realize that it is a http page