Firefox stands for the web of open standards: it’s good that the browser exists. However, it is slipping into insignificance.
A healthy browser ecosystem needs diversity so that one day one company cannot dictate to everyone how they should use the internet. We’ve been through this before, and it didn’t go well. On that note: Happy birthday, Firefox, may you have many more birthdays!
People did this to themselves.
Unless we see some kind of regulation, today’s big tech is tomorrow’s big brother.
No way, Firefox released the same day as Halo2 ? What a blessed day it was
IIRC I downloaded Firefox 1.0.4 way back in the day, and kept using it until somewhere around version 6 or 7. Moved away when they started copying Chrome on everything. Rapid-release inflation was the last straw.
This article immediately had me searching in confusion over whether the logo is a fox or meant to be a panda! What is your logo? Fox or red panda?
Don’t leave us hanging man, what is it??
Confusingly both. The name is from the red panda, but the icon is absolutely a fox!
Yeah, I was a huge fan of that person going to that length, and saying they’d argued with their girlfriend about it, haha
Installed Firefox back in 2006 and used ever since. Great browser.
Bring. Back. XUL.
Or at least something as functional.
And HTML5 with modern JS were a mistake. Maybe it all can be made some kind of embeddable content processed in its own sandbox in an optional plugin. Just like with Flash. So something like NPAPI, but for modern age with its security nuances.
I know nobody is going to do that, just if Firefox were still faithful to its initial goal, they would try to introduce their own evolutionary paths and not just chase Chrome (which is a lost cause anyway). Even if Chrome is being treated as standard.
I won’t object to this comment being treated as idiotic, FF is a mainstream browser now, them just dropping half the modern common web standards in favor of some own idea of things would be a weird kind of suicide.
Bring. Back. XUL.
Possibly of interest: https://www.palemoon.org/
No. I meant a modern thing filling the same niche. Palemoon is just old FF supported by a group of delusional people (their attack on OpenBSD with “official branding” or something comes to mind).
fair enough, just sharing links in case they’re relevant
