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Mozilla Has Been Suspiciously Silent About Google And Manifest V3 (fosspost.org)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 175 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Mozilla is the maker of the famous Firefox browser which has been using its own web engine called “Gecko” since forever, and hence, is not affected at all by these moves from Google.

You answered your own question. It doesn't effect FF.

But, I do agree they should use the downgrade in functionality of V3 as a point for advertising FF.

[–] Quacksalber 63 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What good would advertising "Still supporting Manifest V2" do for your average user? They also wouldn't want to openly advertise that "Your ad block still works with us".

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

Most sane take in this whole thread.

Some of y'all get a little conspiratorial.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

That is literally the premise of the article

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't they get like 90% of their money from Google?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

that's also probably a factor in why they don't say anything, big moneypants might say something

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, big moneypants is getting sued for monopoly practices, which means Mozilla's search revenue may dry up. I'm guessing they don't want to ruin their chances with a competitor should they need to find another search partner.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

sure, that's also probably a factor in why they don't say anything, new big moneypants might say something

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Didn't they remove XUL extensions to make their extension interface compatible with inferior chrome web extensions?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

I just did a quick online search and it seems like the reason for removing that was that it was way too much work to maintain and stopped them from implementing performance improvements for Firefox. Apparently it was also a lot of work for extension developers, since they had to update their extensions constantly.

That's just what I read tho, I wasn't there when XUL extensions where still a thing.

[–] mindbleach 3 points 3 months ago

Yes, after twenty years of refusing to stabilize any part of that interface.

Chrome is absolutely the villain in this context. But Mozilla has been fucking itself over since the single-digit version numbers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

i wouldn’t say inferior… mozilla extensions were more performant and flexible, web extensions (ie the initial chrome format - now a standard that most browsers use) are easier to develop, and thus there were a lot more of them