• 1984@lemmy.today
      42·
      1 year ago

      After the disaster with colorways, mozilla has picked up the pace and started being sane again.

    • blarp@lemmy.mlEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      i also don’t like snaps but mozilla said that the official version of firefox on ubuntu is the snap version, so that’s why canonical pushes it on people

  • Oliver Lowe@lemmy.sdf.org
    42·
    1 year ago

    Good to see development effort going towards actual Firefox and not those random Mozilla products that I can’t keep track of

    • dan@upvote.au
      14·
      1 year ago

      Do you mean products like their VPN? They really need the revenue to try and become more independent from Google. Right now something like 90% of their income comes from a deal with Google to make Google the default search engine.

      • 1984@lemmy.today
        22·
        1 year ago

        They should make a search engine. If Kagi can do it, why can’t Mozilla? Because it would upset Google…

        There is no real competition. Google has mozilla in a strangehold and they are fine for mozilla to do privacy stuff, but not fine with them competing for real.

        • Spectacle8011@lemmy.comfysnug.space
          3·
          1 year ago

          They should make a search engine. If Kagi can do it, why can’t Mozilla?

          The biggest provider of Kagi’s results is Google. They are unique in that they have their own Tinygem and Teclis indexes to augment results, though. Mozilla could certainly operate a plain Google proxy like Mullvad does with Leta, but I don’t think they’d be making more money out of it than just agreeing to Google’s exclusive terms.

          Building a search engine with an independent index is hard. Mojeek has done the best job of it, but you can tell there’s a disparity in result quality even if they’re improving.

          • 1984@lemmy.today
            1·
            1 year ago

            Yes I know, but users may pay mozilla for added privacy, just like they are paying Kagi now for privacy and extra features on top of Google.

            But you are right, they are still depending on the monster that is Google.

            • Spectacle8011@lemmy.comfysnug.space
              1·
              1 year ago

              I would be interested in seeing Mozilla invest in making Mojeek better. I think they could be a good match. An independent browser engine and an independent search engine. On the other hand, I don’t want Mozilla to acquire them and kill them a few years later. Their short attention span is one quality I wish they hadn’t cribbed from Google.

              A search engine is an interesting idea, but:

              1. it needs to be independent. Mozilla can’t be depending on Google or Bing. After Bing got what they wanted, they started choking their proxies by pushing prices up substantially. Depending on Google is a similar folly.
              2. they need to be committed to it. This isn’t some project Mozilla can cook up in three or four years and abandon two years later. It needs to be a long-term strategy with hundreds of millions of dollars invested.

              That’s why I think Mojeek could be a shortcut. But either way, I don’t think Mozilla has the bandwidth (or guts, frankly) to commit to this sort of project.

              But you are right, they are still depending on the monster that is Google.

              And as long as you’re depending on them, you might as well take as much as you can.

        • dan@upvote.au
          9·
          1 year ago

          I mean, the alternative to the Google deal is to not have money to operate, which isn’t ideal.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    While Mozilla has always produced Firefox Nightly builds for Linux as traditional binaries, they have finally decided to offer up an APT repository of Firefox Nightly builds to make it easy to stay up-to-date with new Firefox Nightly releases on Debian and Ubuntu Linux based distributions.

    Mozilla announced today they have setup an APT repository as an easy option for using Firefox Nightly on Ubuntu/Debian-based platforms.

    The Firefox Nightly Debian packages will also see better performance thanks to extra compiler optimizations, additional security hardening with extra security-related compiler flags, and easily stay up-to-date now via the APT package management.

    Eventually the packages will become available for Beta, ESR, and release branches of Firefox from this APT repository too.

    More details on this long overdue Firefox APT repository via Mozilla.org.

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