Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery
swordgeek@lemmy.ca 3 weeks agoMozilla has stopped working on developing and improving their products, and is now entirely focused on adding trendy terms and garbage, to feed money to their C*Os.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They in the last year or so added built in vertical tabs , much better hardware support for decoding video on Linux, continue to support manifest v2 and high quality ad blocking. Have increased performance and memory usage.
In the last 7 years performance is night and day different as is multiple process performance and switched away from unmaintainable old broken addon system.
They also created one of the premiere programming languages which is making in roads in the Linux kernel.
angrystego@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
All right, but apart from the vertical tabs, better video decoding, support for manifest v2, high quality adblocking, increased performance, and the useful programming language, what has Mozilla ever done for us?
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
The aqueducts?
angrystego@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh. Aqueducts? Shut up!
glog78@digitalcourage.social 3 weeks ago
@michaelmrose @swordgeek I 100% agree that Mozilla is important but it's also clear that currently their is not enough business to keep Mozilla going. I don't blame them for trying to make a Business , i blame them for not following their former values. You can make a business and still mostly follow values ( look for example to GOG ).
And for what i don't like is the change from opt in to opt out. Every new feature most users don't want and they know this and make it harder and harder to turn off. The last time it was hidden in a sub menu in the settings ( switching off sending data to their ad service ) now it's hidden in config:about.
I guess next time you need 3rd party patches and compile the browser yourself to switch a "feature" off.
Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I would argue that it’s a bit easier to still follow your values if your business consists of mostly selling games.