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Re: Uninstall Firefox Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Tue Apr 8 17:45:24 2014, in response to Re: Uninstall Firefox Re: Dennis Prager's ''important thinking'' of the week, posted by Nilet on Tue Apr 8 13:51:06 2014. I'll throw this in as a reply to you since you at least understand the technicals. The REASON why Eich had to be removed from the decisionmaking is mostly technical. Firefox has fallen WAY behind in supporting HTML5, WebM and upcoming "Web 2.0" features. Eich has been holding us coders back as far as those necessary improvements go because he's been beholden to Adobe and insisting on keeping FLASH as the primary multimedia plugin for that POS. Why? Because they were paying Mozilla to do so.Chrome, which was based on Mozilla along with bandaids of Apple's Webkit, came up with at least a somewhat firewalled PEPPER API stack to at least keep Flash somewhat safe while going full bore on HTML5 and WebM support as native code. Chrome though is a privacy nightmare and that's the reason why those of us still hanging on to the Mozilla project keep trying to get that resolved. Eich wanted no part of it and actually began becoming hostile to us coders who have been fighting him for a couple of years now over this. Mozilla then turned around and decided that they were going to sell advertising on their screens as of the new release which just came out. All factors considered, Firefox was going to die a quick death and Mozilla was forced into a decision - die in the marketplace or give Eich another job at higher pay where he wouldn't be able to do as much damage. Eich resigned. Conservative "reporters" really should do a little research before getting their shit wrong ... so sayeth the sages of subchat. :) |
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