2022

It's the year 2022.

Mozilla Firefox adoption has dropped below 1% and the Mozilla Foundation announces it will be closing its doors forever due to lack of funding.

Likewise, the Rust community has shrunk, withering away over the months and years since 2017 when the last major features were added. Now it resembles nothing more than the Pascal community. Another hipster language that flourished and died.

Nice.

Why would anybody leave Firefox?
It's easily the best major browser out there.
What else would you run, Google ``privacy is dead, long live the botnet'' Chrome?
I use so many extensions that I couldn't bear to move to another browser unless it had full Firefox extension compatibility.

>>3

I lot of people prefer chrome. I can easily see firefox falling out of favor against it.

>>4
This. The normies who are smart enough to install another browser to replace IE generally choose Chrome, because most all have Android phones, being the normies that they are. And Apple fags just stick with Safari.

Firefox is dying, mostly due to feminist bureacracy and political correctness at Mozilla headquarters. I wouldn't be surprised if HR and other parasitical occupational classes at Mozilla are siphoning off the funding away from the actual engineers.

Firefox was good at version 1, v2 was okay, and then it all went downhill.

Firefox is bug ridden garbage with an ugly interface. The strength of Chromium is V8 and smart design decisions. It's usable and doesn't leak memory to a level anywhere close to that of FF.

>>5
Firefox is dying because of numerous design mistakes, not feminists. That's what you get when you hire some Node.js fuck.

>>7
At least it's extensible and not so spyware-ridden as the Big Brother Corp. browser.

>>7
But chromium is worse and it does not leak memory simply because it does not work with more than 70 tabs.

millenium dubs

>>7
Chrome is fast indeed, though the interface is dumbed down to app level (Advanced preferences? What are you trying to hack XD), it doesn't have nearly as many extensions as Firefox and having more than 50 tabs open absolutely kills any modern PC.

It's happening!

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2893514/an-incredibly-shrinking-firefox-faces-endangered-species-status.html

Mozilla's Firefox is in danger of making the endangered species list for browsers. Just two weeks after Mozilla's top Firefox executive said that rumors of its demise were "dead wrong," the iconic browser dropped another three-tenths of a percentage point in analytics firm Net Applications' tracking, ending February with 11.6%.

That was Firefox's lowest share since July 2006, when the browser had been in the market for less than two years. Firefox 1.0 was released in November 2004, at a time when Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) had a stranglehold on the browser space, having driven Netscape -- Firefox's forerunner -- out of the market. Mozilla has been credited with restarting browser development, which had been moribund under IE. But Firefox has fallen on hard times.
In the last 12 months, Firefox's user share -- an estimate of the portion of all those who reach the Internet via a desktop browser -- has plummeted by 34%. Since Firefox crested at 25.1% in April 2010, Firefox has lost 13.5 percentage points, or 54% of its peak share.

At Firefox's 12-month average rate of decline, Mozilla's desktop browser will slip under the 10% bar in June, joining other third-tier applications like Apple's Safari (with just a 4.8% user share in February) and Opera Software's Opera (1.1%). If the trend continues, Firefox on the desktop could drop below 8% as soon as October. The numbers for Firefox were even worse when both the desktop and mobile data are combined. Firefox's total user share -- an amalgamation of desktop and mobile -- was 9.5% for February, its lowest level since Computerworld began tracking the metric nearly six years ago, and 3.4 percentage points lower than in July 2014, the last time Computerworld analyzed the data.

Mozilla faces a double whammy: Its flagship desktop browser continues to bleed share, while the company has been unable to attract a significant mobile audience. Although the company has long offered Firefox on Android and its Firefox OS has landed on an increasing number of low-end smartphone makers' devices, its February mobile share was less than seven-tenths of one percent, about four times smaller than the second-from-the-bottom mobile browser, Microsoft's IE.

Apple, which had long trailed Mozilla in desktop + mobile browser user share, has leapfrogged its rival because of Firefox's decline: Safari on desktop and mobile had a cumulative 11.8% user share, down half a point from July 2014. More than two-thirds of Apple's total was credited to Safari on iOS.

They have made so many stupid decisions over the past few years, I don't even feel sad for them.
Only one example of this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678775

>>14
I don't feel sorry for Mozilla. I feel sorry for all the people who are getting locked into Google Chrome because Mozilla is not able to compete.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678775#c3

This feature is a priority of the Firefox UX lead and the Firefox Product lead

As if anyone gives a shit. Last I checked Firefox was still an open source project. It doesn't bode well to see people eager to pull rank on contributors at the first sign of disagreement.

This just affirms my suspicion that non-technical people have overrun Mozilla and are slowly killing it with their clueless politics.

Firefox is just disappointing.

This just affirms my suspicion that left-wing feminist SJWs have overrun Mozilla and are slowly killing it with their clueless identity politics.

>>17
It's not just the Eich drama. It's things like the constant reactionary UI changes, the premature rollout of pdf.js, the underestimation of the effort needed to make Firefox OS truly useful... all sorts of bad decisions that only happen when marketing people are calling the shots.

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* DRM
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pick ONE

>>5
Source on Firefox feminism?

`>Start up chrome
>It asks me to log in with a Google account before visiting any web pages
Totally not spying on you, honest!

>>21
Take for example Graydon Hoare. Graydon was the founder of the Rust programming language at Mozilla. Here is a post on his blog where he cries that people are bending over and becoming leftists like him:

http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193575.html

I'm a bog standard democratic socialist, culturally cringing straight white able-bodied rich male Canadian who likes my society multicultural, my economy redistributive, my taxation strongly progressive, my capitalism heavily regulated, my state relatively large, well funded and active in social policy, and my military nearly nonexistent outside of peacekeeping operations. I am even ok with laws regulating hate speech, obscenity, libel and such. I'm trying to paint a picture here so my sympathies are completely clear. I'm probably viewed as some kind of traitor by most extreme right wing and some left wing people, though I identify with and politically support leftist positions in almost all cases; I'm just not anti-state enough for a lot of the far (anarchist) left. I'm sorry.

Here's his other site which indexes his various interests: http://www.pobox.com/~graydon

Are you cringing yet?

>>23

cries that people aren't bending over

>>23
What a cunt.
And this guy made Rust? I feel disgusted that I learned that shitty language now

>>25
If you actually care you're no better than he us.

>>26
People who are against free speech and expression make me sick.
So I suppose in your eyes I'm no better then.

>>23

More like GAYDON

>>23

who likes my society multicultural

Bleh. Disgusting faggot.

>>23

please stop doing these things:

driving
eating meat
having babies
being serious

Yep, Gaydon confirmed for an illogical idiot. How are we supposed to stop eating meat and having babies if we stop being serious about it, Gaydon? OK, I'm not having babies or eating meat, but I'm not serious about it, so I just knocked up my wife after having a juicy steak.

gaydong whore

>>30

wife

care to tell us how it's like to be gay

>>32
Say what?

>>33
I think he's mocking you for getting married instead of dedicating your life solely to the sublime pursuit of achieving satori.

>>34
Not that I'm actually married, but mocking a man with a wife as "being gay" is just a tad above the average level of mental retardation here.

>>35
It's not that uncommon for homosexuals to be married to someone of the opposite sex.

>>1
This is why I exclusively use Lynx.

Why aren't you all using Lynx?

>>37
I do use Linux.

>>37
How do you post to this board in Lynx?

>>39
At the bottom of the page are 2 groups of blank lines you can type in. You need to use the shorter lines at the bottom. After that follow the reply link.
You'll need to specify a text editor in the settings for lynx if you want to do proper editing of your post. You can invoke it with Ctrl-x e.

The excellent thing about Lynx is that you can compile it quickly and change it easily.

I've already made a couple of small changes to it so it renders the source code posted to
/prog/ with the correct spacing (it used to collapse all whitespace).