Technology

59118 readers

3983 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

534

Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

submitted 17 hours ago by [email protected] to c/technology

92 comments fedilink hide all child comments

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/46655413

The Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Firefox browser maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the organization says it faces a “relentless onslaught of change.”

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

There is a new browser based on WebKit (safari), called Orion that looks promising. However, it’s only on macOS and iOS at this point. Hopefully Linux and Android will be a consideration at some point.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

There's also a new browser based on Firefox/Gecko called Zen. There's way too many browsers based on Webkit or Blink.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Zen has less frequent security updates. But yes zen is a good gecko alternative.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

zen integrates every upstream change a few hours after release, it is built as a set of patch on top of firefox just to make that easy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Hmm. Well, I’ll have to give it a go. Thanks.

[–] grue 8 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Chrome's engine was originally forked from WebKit. That makes them too similar (even years later) for WebKit to count as a real alternative.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

I strongly disagree with this. In practice, supporting chrome does not imply supporting safari and vice versa. In particular, Safari is much, much slower about adopting new web technologies. Google basically implements support for anything they can think up, Apple waits for it become a ratified standard and then implements it only if they want to. Their JavaScript implementations are also completely different.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The point is to leave a google controlled ecosystem… which means it counts as a valid alternative. What would you suggest besides chromium and gecko?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

w3m

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Haha. So I really do wish that all websites had a text version, or like markdown. Can you imagine how damn speedy things would be? Every website would have the same layout. As much as I appreciate good web design, there’s a lot of bad UI choices out there.