Mozilla once again notices that, in spite of the lavish salaries they heap upon their techbro executives, Firefox’s userbase continues to dwindle. Could this be because they don’t operate a monolithic surveillance advertising racket? Or maybe it’s because the corners in the UI aren’t round enough.
https://www.firefox.com/en-US/whatsnew/157/
Choice quote from that interview, which was important enough to get a big box in the release notes too:
We are bringing back compact mode as well
We removed it for absolutely no goddamn fucking reason, despite numerous objections, and now we’re bringing it back! This is called ‘listening’, you see. We are very dependable can definitely be relied upon to provide a stable browser that you won’t have to worry about.
Somehow those executives just can’t work out that unless you can advertise Firefox in all of the search engines and youtubes and gmails and docs and drives and whatever the fuck and preinstall it on all the phones, the Chrome users will not come. “Ooh shiny” is the least of anyone’s concerns.
When was the last time you looked into servo because this is dated at best, bordering on misleading. The js support has increased massively over the past year with things like intersectionobserver, shadow dom, and dozens more apis. Stylo supports many newer and advanced css features, of note recently is grid support. And the frontend servoshell has taken urls for a rather long time. If you try it out today with experimental features enabled you’ll find that most websites mostly work.
last year, admittedly. good to hear that it’s coming along!