• grue@lemmy.ml
    759·
    11 months ago

    Its entire business model is a protection racket wrapped in a crypto scam, so no, I don’t trust it!

    It also doesn’t help that that it’s run by the incompetent dipshit who inflicted JavaScript on the world and who later got kicked out of Mozilla for being a bad person. Furthermore, being based on Chromium instead of Firefox is an unforgivable sin by itself. Really, from my perspective there’s basically nothing in its favor at all.

    • Mars@beehaw.org
      61·
      11 months ago

      Firefox architecture makes remarkably difficult to spin a browser based in its rendering engine.

      I can forgive the JavaScript think taking into account the specification was made in 3 days and that the suits made “looking like Java” a requirement.

      Everything else is true.

      • grue@lemmy.ml
        7·
        11 months ago

        I can forgive the JavaScript think taking into account the specification was made in 3 days and that the suits made “looking like Java” a requirement.

        Given that the backup plan was to embed Scheme or Python, it would’ve been better for Eich to fail.

        • Mars@beehaw.org
          11·
          11 months ago

          Python in the browsers seems like the only outcome worst than JavaScript in the browser.

          It sends shivers down my spine.

        • Mars@beehaw.org
          3·
          11 months ago

          At least half of those are patched Firefoxes, without telemetry and improved privacy.

          Brave, Vivaldi, Edge etc are way more different from chromium than any of those from Firefox.

          The thing is Firefox components are more tightly coupled. blink and v8 are easier to wrap in your own browser than gecko and SpiderMonkey.

          Mozilla has been refactoring for ages improving the modularity of Firefox, but it may be already to late.