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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: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @02:29PM (14 children)
...if Mozilla hadn't shat on their userbase at every turn they'd have some more relevance and leverage in these times.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @02:47PM
Unlike Google, which shits on its userbase, its customers, its employees, its investors, and the world at large.
Do Evil Unto Evil. Fuck Google To Death.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @04:23PM (7 children)
Does nobody remember Sun v. Microsoft over javascript? The idea that Microsoft is getting on the same page with anybody about anything is pretty funny. But not as funny as this from the blog post:
"From a social, civic and individual empowerment perspective"
Odd that a product that rarely goes a week without getting pwned should be regarded as being civic minded. If it was civic minded, it would stop supporting insecure and obnoxious systems architecture just because other vendors do it. Part of being civic minded, is drawing the line when behaviours are harmful to the public welfare. The reason why browser software is free, is precisely because they don't do this. The software vendors aren't willing to assume the litigious risk that comes along with commercial consideration.
You can't be better than the next guy and committed to the status quo at the same time.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday December 09 2018, @05:45PM (5 children)
"Working Software, Mike speaking. How may I help you?"
"Working Watermarker 1.1.2 Sucks The Infinite Wang."
"In what way?"
"It won't let go of my cock!"
"I'll remove WWM's teeth in 1.1.3. Would you like to be one of our beta testers?"
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @06:22PM (4 children)
"I enjoy my job of coding device drivers for IoT sex toys. Lonely people who masturbate are losers who deserve to have their privacy violated by my employer's products otherwise they would get laid every day like me. But my true passion is my side business of running a job board. I know very well how companies use my job board to advertise jobs that they have no intention of ever filling, but I'm never happier than when I think about all those jobless bums who get fucked over by soggy.jobs [soggy.jobs]."
- Michael David Crawford, Don Slippery Dickhead, Grand Kakistocrat of Portlandia
(Score: 4, Funny) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday December 09 2018, @06:59PM (3 children)
Our customer service personnel will respond to your request in the order it was made.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @07:19PM (2 children)
Product: Working Watermarker
Version: 1.1.3
Issue: Teeth are missing
Customers who enjoy the feeling of a toothy blowjob will be disappointed by the product. Developers please include a configuration option to enable teeth.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday December 09 2018, @11:27PM (1 child)
THIS.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 10 2018, @05:24PM
I demand granularly detailed configuration options that also remember my preferences!
all this stuff about personalized advertising and yet whatever I care about gets spat right back at me as if the service provider doesn't really care what I think.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @07:46PM
It was java not JavaScript
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @06:25PM (3 children)
Even if users or developers wanted to use them.
Standardizing on WebExtensions gave Google more control of the web too.
So did taking Google's Money, then squandering it on Pocket, and social justice issues, instead of on a serious push to regression test and bugfix Gecko and later Quantum in an effort to cut down on memory block, keep the browser fast and small, and improve security against the incessant march of critical exploits they generate EVERY FUCKING NEW VERSION.
Seriously the executive staff of Mozillla all deserve to be poor. Any of the devs responsible for the current security issues, deserve to be poor.
Why do I say poor? Because my alternative is 'shot in the head'. Just like politicians, corporate cronies, and the people who keep voting them in or acting as apologists.
(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
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Tuesday December 11 2018, @07:29PM
Keep in mind that the original Chrome team was the original Firefox team (that is, the same developers that made the good Firefox).
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