So, I’m staying with #Firefox, even though their CEO is tone-deaf and clumsy and destroying #Mozilla’s reputation because today I had to remove 6 extensions in #Vivaldi (my sometimes alternate browser), several of which were security-related, because of Google’s changes. I miss them. I want them back.

Bottom line. I definitely feel more secure using Firefox than a Chrome-based browser, and I won’t let my disappointment with Mozilla kill off the only alternative to Google. I will continue using Firefox.

As far as using a fork of Firefox, if Firefox doesn’t live on, neither will these forks.

  • The_DecryptorEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    The web moves so fast that we ditched W3C standards for the WHATWG living standard because it took too long to release new features.

    That’s because the W3C was focused on XHTML 2 at the time, which nobody outside of the W3C actually wanted. So any proposed amendments to HTML 4 was met with “But we’ll have XHTML 2 soon!”

    I’m skeptical of claims from browser makers that the spec process wasn’t moving “fast enough”, since it’s not like they actually implemented it fully anyway.