• cley_faye@lemmy.world
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      2 hours ago

      Firefox, the software mainly driven by Mozilla, which is heavily investing in AI and ads ventures? That Firefox?

      But, maybe “it will be different this time”, I guess.

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      Mozilla spinning off control of its development to an independent group the way they did with Thunderbird would be the best thing that could happen to Firefox.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird :

      Operated by MZLA Technologies Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, Thunderbird is an independent, community-driven project that is managed and overseen by the Thunderbird Council, which is elected by the Thunderbird community.

      Chrome self-destructing because of stupidity like AI would only ever manage to be a close second, at best.

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        9 hours ago

        Some of their I initiatives are good, like the built-in local translation tool we now have.

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          5 hours ago

          Also their initiative to recognise images and generate alt-text for screen-reader users.

          My sister is blind and screen readers are close to useless on the web, so it was great to hear Mozilla is working on that.

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          11 hours ago

          Considering how little they invest into their core product compared to all the other shit and how much money the top brass earns despite declining market share, I don’t think they’re hurting for money that much.

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            6 hours ago

            They are investing a lot in their core product. Problem is that you can’t really monatize it. You want Firefox to be paywalled?

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              5 hours ago

              Ideally it would be financed by user donations. Probably not that realistic for a project like this, though.

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                3 hours ago

                You can’t finance a massive project like that with donations. This isn’t like Signal or some small project like that. Firefox is MASSIVE.

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                5 hours ago

                Yeah, web browsers cost hundreds of millions per year to maintain, they’re mind-bogglingly complicated and costly.

                I’d really hope the Linux Foundation would help contribute towards the budget, but LF is quite pro Chromium.

                I don’t think end users can even come close to funding Firefox development, unfortunately.