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Let me pay for Firefox

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802 points csmantle | 1 comments | 13 Jul 25 08:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source
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gr4vityWall ◴[13 Jul 25 10:08 UTC] No.44549048[source]▶
I used to want to donate to Mozilla Foundation, but I've long lost any hope that the corporation would spend that money in a way that makes sense to me. The pessimist on me would expect donated money to be spent on more built-in "campaigns", "studies" or ads. Or maybe a bonus for their executives.

I just want Firefox to be faster. I'm donating to Floorp (a Firefox fork), at least they seem focused on making the browser better.

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Uehreka ◴[13 Jul 25 11:35 UTC] No.44549541[source]▶
I get why people are pissed at Mozilla, but I do feel like people on HN also underestimate how much hating Mozilla is becoming a hacker tribal signifier. It almost feel like each commenter is competing to out-hate the others or to add a layer of “in fact its so bad that we should (consequences)”.

Like, in general, I find that any HN thread where most of the comments are just agreeing, one-upping and yes-anding while invoking the same talking points and terminology (CEO ghouls, etc.) is probably a topic we might need to chill out on.

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1. godelski ◴[14 Jul 25 02:26 UTC] No.44555879[source]▶
Honestly, the result of it is highly beneficial to Google.

Like it or not, that's the end result. Hacking on a chromium browser doesn't de-googleify the internet, it deepens the moat.

Did we forget the old joke?

  There's two types of programs:
    - Those with bugs
    - Those that nobody uses
We can both hold Mozilla to a high starved AND recognize that they're the only serious alternative to Chrome. We can criticize things while being happy they exist. Criticism is about making things better. We're engineers, so it should be easy to find faults. That's the first step to fixing things! But the criticisms of Firefox have just become a cliché. I guarantee 90+% of people will not notice differences in speed, battery life, or anything else like that. Mostly the differences are cosmetic.

Do we really want to hate on Mozilla so much that we'd lick the big boot just out of spite? I have plenty of problems with how Mozilla has handled many issues, but it's laughable to compare these to Google or Microsoft. Seriously, WTF