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[–] crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

While Mozilla is far from perfect, I think they've managed to avoid getting shitty for almost 20 years.

[–] Grimpen@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's because the Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit. They don't need to maximize value for their shareholders™.

Thank you Netscape for setting Navigator free!

The Enshitification cycle is a feature of for profit corporations, Google was always going to turn evil at some point.

[–] nan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The Mozilla Corporation is for profit, but they reinvest all of their profits. They are also wholly owned by the Foundation. You can't donate to Firefox.

[–] crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, and they've made some profit-driven decisions, such as pocket integration, but never on the level of what google does.

That's why I've said they are far from perfect (but the best we have).

[–] nan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And dropping Thunderbird :(

Although it seems to be doing well now under its own, newish commercial corporation.

[–] nomadjoanne@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It's coming along nicely. I donate and am a fan.

[–] esscew@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Somehow it's always the lead software in a category that becomes shitty while everything else is praised. Regardless of what's being talked about. (I know why)

[–] pearsche@lemdro.id 2 points 1 year ago

People get used to it, it's "fine" but doesn't improve considerably or add anything exciting, so people get bored. I moved from Firefox to Chrome, and honestly Chrome feels smoother and uses less ram seemingly for me on my laptop. Aside from no support for vaapi on wayland, chrome is fine imo