20 years of Firefox: Happy birthday, little panda!
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Firefox stands for the web of open standards: it's good that the browser exists. However, it is slipping into insignificance.

Firefox stands for the web of open standards: it’s good that the browser exists. However, it is slipping into insignificance.

A healthy browser ecosystem needs diversity so that one day one company cannot dictate to everyone how they should use the internet. We’ve been through this before, and it didn’t go well. On that note: Happy birthday, Firefox, may you have many more birthdays!

  • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    9 days ago

    People did this to themselves.

    Unless we see some kind of regulation, today’s big tech is tomorrow’s big brother.

  • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Bring. Back. XUL.

    Or at least something as functional.

    And HTML5 with modern JS were a mistake. Maybe it all can be made some kind of embeddable content processed in its own sandbox in an optional plugin. Just like with Flash. So something like NPAPI, but for modern age with its security nuances.

    I know nobody is going to do that, just if Firefox were still faithful to its initial goal, they would try to introduce their own evolutionary paths and not just chase Chrome (which is a lost cause anyway). Even if Chrome is being treated as standard.

    I won’t object to this comment being treated as idiotic, FF is a mainstream browser now, them just dropping half the modern common web standards in favor of some own idea of things would be a weird kind of suicide.

  • Peffse@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    IIRC I downloaded Firefox 1.0.4 way back in the day, and kept using it until somewhere around version 6 or 7. Moved away when they started copying Chrome on everything. Rapid-release inflation was the last straw.