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I am shocked. Shocked! /s

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

make their browser engine useable for 3rd parties and sell support, make an electron-like product and add premium features… there are so many browser-based products that people sell, and owning 1 of the only viable browser engines should be huge… the fact that firefox is still only barely able to be embedded is a travesty

it’d be especially valuable if they made a premium electron product that provided security/privacy guarantees, performance benefits, etc - they should siphon some of the profit off the number of for-profit companies that build electron apps

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I kinda like the idea but I also kinda hate it.

I really wish PWAs worked properly cross-platform instead. :(

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

SSB was killed after it sat behind an about:config flag, then their telemetry (that most power users disable) reported folks weren’t using. But what average users would be using a setting they would need to poke around to find. It’s a real shame too since I want to say it was PeppermintOS that was largely built around PWAs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Pretty standard for Mozilla logic if you have watched the features cut over the years.

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