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Mozilla CEO quits, org pivots, but what about Firefox? (www.theregister.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

KHTML was the basis of WebKit and then Blink/Chromium, so the community did make something. It was just overtaken by the corporate projects, for those same reasons you mention.

[โ€“] long_chicken_boat 17 points 9 months ago

those days the web was way simpler than it is now. complexity has doomed every web engine not maintained by a mega corp (and some that were, Microsoft killed their own).