This is the second layoff at Mozilla this year, the first affecting dozens of staff on the side of the organization that builds the popular Firefox browser.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/46655413

The Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Firefox browser maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the organization says it faces a “relentless onslaught of change.”

  • ravhallEnglish
    114·
    16 days ago

    There is a new browser based on WebKit (safari), called Orion that looks promising. However, it’s only on macOS and iOS at this point. Hopefully Linux and Android will be a consideration at some point.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      102·
      16 days ago

      Chrome’s engine was originally forked from WebKit. That makes them too similar (even years later) for WebKit to count as a real alternative.

      • ravhallEnglish
        93·
        16 days ago

        The point is to leave a google controlled ecosystem… which means it counts as a valid alternative. What would you suggest besides chromium and gecko?

          • ravhallEnglish
            31·
            15 days ago

            Haha. So I really do wish that all websites had a text version, or like markdown. Can you imagine how damn speedy things would be? Every website would have the same layout. As much as I appreciate good web design, there’s a lot of bad UI choices out there.

      • bamboo@lemm.eeEnglish
        21·
        15 days ago

        I strongly disagree with this. In practice, supporting chrome does not imply supporting safari and vice versa. In particular, Safari is much, much slower about adopting new web technologies. Google basically implements support for anything they can think up, Apple waits for it become a ratified standard and then implements it only if they want to. Their JavaScript implementations are also completely different.

    • dan@upvote.auEnglish
      8·
      15 days ago

      There’s also a new browser based on Firefox/Gecko called Zen. There’s way too many browsers based on Webkit or Blink.

      • ravhallEnglish
        22·
        15 days ago

        Zen has less frequent security updates. But yes zen is a good gecko alternative.

        • L_Acacia@lemmy.oneEnglish
          2·
          15 days ago

          zen integrates every upstream change a few hours after release, it is built as a set of patch on top of firefox just to make that easy

          • ravhallEnglish
            21·
            15 days ago

            Hmm. Well, I’ll have to give it a go. Thanks.