That also doesn’t work.

For anyone not following this - they’re getting cased by venture capital. Some billionaire assholes are trying to use EU laws about minority shareholder rights to fire enough executives that they can just buy the entire company and fire half the employees. Tencent’s investment came with the agreement they could not fuck with existing leadership. They are, somehow, the good guys.

It’s three separate groups of greedy assholes, each awful in their own way, and honestly the least-shitty outcome of this slapfight is if very little changes.

Blind.

“But can it run Outsys?”

The browser should not be aiding it, regardless of how nice it acts. The most important extensions - by a fucking mile - are ad-blockers. They represent a crystal clear separation of websites delivering data versus what the user chooses to do with it. All threats to that distinction are a foot in the door for losing control of how your computer does what you want.

Quite frankly Mozilla’s been an obstacle to Firefox for many years. I don’t trust them and I don’t like them. This is yet another desperate pivot that squanders some of their vanishing goodwill and market share.

Burn the phoenix again.

Yeah, Bleem won that lawsuit. And the next lawsuit. And the next.

And then they ran out of money.

They sent goons to his house.

What he got out of it is, they left.

they should force WhatsApp/Apple/Signal/Telegram to scan all our private messages

Average person: “Fuck right off.”

for suspected child sexual abuse material (CSAM)

Average person: “OH WELL I GUESS IT’S OKAY THEN.”

I’d appreciate any details on how the fuck.

See also Dumbing Of Age.

Ruth: “You can do karaoke sober.”

Jennifer: “You can do karaoke sober.”

… unless the customer is over 18, right? The age where an age rating doesn’t fucking matter?

This is the same shit as Australia “refusing classification.” Oh cool, guess it’ll default to the highest bar to entry, oh no wait the whole thing was just an excuse to censor fictional people taking imaginary drugs.

The silliest part is, they could absolutely keep milking nonsense forever. All they’d lose is exclusivity. Star Wars would be a genre, the way zombies are, thanks to George Romero’s incompetent producers. And every new detail would still be in that vice-grip for another thirty years! Winnie The Pooh is public-domain and Disney’s still gonna slit throats if anyone depicts him wearing red.

They’re scared someone might make a better Star Wars than they did.

Dunno why, when the thinly-disguised competition is Rebel Moon.

And the author spent a year hassling Mozilla about how killing XUL plugins would make his wildly popular plugin nearly impossible. Did they move one iota to help that? Nope. Did they adopt DTA functionality natively, like they’d absorbed Pocket? Did they fuck. Their mantra for two straight decades has been “just rewrite!” and they cannot imagine why they kept hemorrhaging devs and plugins and users once Chrome slimed its way into everyone’s options.

And?

Never give Nintendo money.

fearmonger that it would split the vote

… it’s a ranked ballot. This country already prevented that, as a concept.

It’s gonna bug me for ages that these people seem unaware how functional their democracy is.

There’s a dozen Firefox extensions that really matter, at any given time. Mozilla has never appeared to give a particular shit about any of them. Paying special attention based on popularity wouldn’t be ideal, but for fuck’s sake, their passive-aggressive treatment keeps burning out the developers who fuel their ecosystem, and it would take vanishingly little effort to shield their keystone plugins.

If their active neglect had ruined both uBlock and DownThemAll - I’m not sure I’d be using Firefox anymore, and I’ve been using Firefox since before it was called Firefox. Why the fuck would anyone normal even consider it?

Never give Nintendo money.