Post B3B3oSHQHoTSFtG8ga by fasterandworse@hci.social
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 (DIR) Post #B3B3oIoNUQtQtCbJfE by fasterandworse@hci.social
       2026-02-09T16:35:36Z
       
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       honestly, Mozilla is a lost cause. Count down to them switching to the chromium engine to save money on engineering staff
       
 (DIR) Post #B3B3oJu5Qh3OHCHOCW by jwz@mastodon.social
       2026-02-09T21:20:24Z
       
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       @fasterandworse They've been doing that for years on iOS, haven't they? Firefox for iOS is just Chrome wearing a skin-suit like Edgar from Men In Black.
       
 (DIR) Post #B3B3oL2dCPTznzHj9s by Edent@mastodon.social
       2026-02-10T08:34:38Z
       
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       @fasterandworse @jwz that's an iOS restriction. Apple don't allow alternative rendering engines.https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/overview/ios.htmlYou can track Mozilla's progress on an iOS build of Gecko at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1882872
       
 (DIR) Post #B3B3oLwdqAHmbhUSSe by jwz@mastodon.social
       2026-02-10T08:38:59Z
       
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       @Edent @fasterandworse I am well aware. This buck-passing makes it no less absurd.
       
 (DIR) Post #B3B3oMxO4sTbkIqZGK by jwz@mastodon.social
       2026-02-10T09:38:17Z
       
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       @Edent @fasterandworse Calling it Firefox is just flat-out deception. They should have just not done it at all.
       
 (DIR) Post #B3B3oNeHVOmttKup7Y by fasterandworse@hci.social
       2026-02-09T16:47:27Z
       
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       I can't say this enough, it's not about AI. It's about terrible decisions, toxic representation, shallow leadership, and all the traits of a productless startup that received significant funding on some baseless tech hype
       
 (DIR) Post #B3B3oNlj3ik6GQOliy by jwz@mastodon.social
       2026-02-10T09:40:18Z
       
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       @Edent @fasterandworse And by "buck passing" I mean, "Oh, it's not our fault that the thing we call Firefox is actually Chrome. We had no choice."Yeah. Yeah you did. Sometimes the only way to win is not to play.
       
 (DIR) Post #B3B3oOf1k6yj1wGvvE by jwz@mastodon.social
       2026-02-10T09:55:44Z
       
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       @Edent @fasterandworse Had they stuck to their principles, they could have still been hammering the conversation, "Why is there no Firefox on iOS? Because Apple won't let us." That's what an org with the mission of preserving the open web would do.Instead, they released a zombie skin suit to *pretend* there's an iOS Firefox and nipped that conversation in the bud. That's what an organization only interested in juicing their market share numbers would do.And it does Apple's PR for them.
       
 (DIR) Post #B3B3oSHQHoTSFtG8ga by fasterandworse@hci.social
       2026-02-09T16:49:24Z
       
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       if mozilla had half an idea of the value of their core asset, they'd not fuck with it. They'd leverage the add-on function to ensure that "features" were adopted on merit, not via some faux interpretation of opt-in
       
 (DIR) Post #B3B3oXr3YkwrXqyAQC by fasterandworse@hci.social
       2026-02-09T17:01:56Z
       
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       everything Mozilla are doing right now regrading this inane "kill switch" is an effort to minimise the problems they created by not designing. It's exactly what I mean by anti-design.
       
 (DIR) Post #B3B3oderyylVXnJWG8 by fasterandworse@hci.social
       2026-02-09T17:12:07Z
       
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