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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: 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