"Put simply, I believe that technology gives us all superpowers, and that every person should be empowered as much as possible. Developers should be able to build any application they can imagine, and we should all be able to use these applications, without restrictions."
- Ryan Pollock<p>I love this sentiment! Unfortunately, Mozilla absolutely disagrees this BSD/MIT license sentiment. Instead Mozilla's MPL 2.0 license makes a broad (hardware and software) patent-grab underlined with a "retaliation clause." So few companies will be "empowered" by this license, they'll have to avoid it like the plague. History shows they'll remake the software all over again, only under a truly permissive software license. An ungodly waste.
So much fluff. Long gone are the days when Mozilla wanted to build the best browser. You simply have to use the browser everyday to know where they are putting in a their efforts.. it is certainly not in the browser.<p>Rust and servo have noble visions but are irrelevant to the future of the web. UX is what drives browser market share and unless Mozilla refocuses on this, they will contjnue to lose maket share. TBH, it will take years if they start now to convince back all the people they lost.
Just today I decided to ditch Firefox after using it daily since the first public release.<p>On my 15 inch Macbook Pro with Retina screen (and a 4k monitor attached) CSS animations are cooking the CPU. I've waited 2 years for improvements but with each new version the issue persisted.<p>It's clearly a Firefox issue, as Safari and Chrome don't have problems with it. But now almost every website uses CSS animations, the problems only have gotten worse. I was hoping the Servo project would somehow solve my problems, but I guess that will take a couple of years to fully develop.<p><a href="https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Roadmap" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/servo/servo/wiki/Roadmap</a>
When the "majority of revenue" comes from Google or Yahoo, what purpose does this serve?<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation#Mozilla_Corporation" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation#Mozilla_Cor...</a><p>I don't see how going from Google to Google-by-proxy is going to "take back the web."
"Xoogler" is a new one for me. I went looking for a company called "Xoogle.com" and wondering why anyone would pick a name so close to Google.<p>"Ex-Googler" seems to have been serving its purpose well.