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How do I do this from an app like Boost?

Not only that, it’s easier to contribute. And generally more accessible to more developers. Which is a damn good thing.

Yes, it’s incredibly good.

If Firefox is trying to get more developers on board with working on it than being on the largest development platform helps them.

It’s a move that should benefit Firefox by making open source contributions more accessible And bringing in more developers.

Thank you for making no effort to engage in conversation and instead trying to shut it down because it doesn’t agree with you.

Insinuating that I’m repeating talking points as a way to dismiss my opinion is the kind of bad faith comments no one wants here.

I’m familiar with them.

These are projects sitting years, maybe even a decade, away from maturity. IF web standards and capabilities don’t change at all over the next 5-10 years.

Hopefully that puts this into perspective. These are really cool projects, but without a massive influx of engineering effort and organization, they will likely be perpetually, hopelessly, behind the standard rate of change required of browsers. Nevermind meeting the current standards of performance, security, observability, ecosystem, user and developer experience.

It’s always good to check in on these projects yearly, see how it’s going, see if they are accelerating or slowing down. Eventually one of them will take off, and potentially leech resources from other similar projects.

Though, the nature of FOSS is that 1000 people will work on 200 different projects all trying to do the same thing, instead of combining and organizing efforts to go after the same unified goal.

This isn’t really a statement of fault but rather a statement of reality. Without dedicated full-time organization, this is usually how scattered resources solve problems. Which is a core problem here in that dedicated organization to rapidly grow the engineering effort for a particular project usually requires funding and full-time employees. To both market it to engineers as an interesting project, mature documentation and DevX, mature the onboarding experience for devs, and to handle the organizational aspects of distributing said work.

A company founded and funded on the concept of activity tracking? Private?

Also, when they first started they seemed to have an unlimited advertising budget, which is why they blew up. Where did that money come from, and what was the promise to those investors on how Brave will bring back revenue to them?

Any fork will die a slow and painful death of it can’t get the necessary funding for project management and maintainer salaries.

It will also dwindle, hard, towards irrelevancy.

In world where the only viable browser is one owned and operated by Google.

CEO is paid for from the for profit. The majority of costs are engineering salaries for Firefox.

Wtf you on about?

The grand majority of all costs for Firefox are in engineering salaries. And there is no million dollar CEO relating to the nonprofit’s expenses, that CEO is paid for from funds from the for profit organization.

Browsers are CRAZY expensive to build and maintain. And teams of engineers are crazy expensive.

I mean, why not?

They integrated accessibility focused, local, AI pretty well.

Loads of folks bitched about it because they were triggered by “AI”, but it’s essentially invisible, as it should be.

I hate naming things, that’s actually something AI is good at, hell yeah, let it name my shit for me please.

Then again, these communities are always full of Debby downers who hate on everything.

It’s going to take years once it actually renders pages correctly to not only be fast but also secure.

And then it’s going to take at least a decade for it to build the necessary ecosystem and ancillary tooling (use. Devtools) that other major browsers have.

And very likely unless it gains significant funding it will never catch up.

At the end of the day, browsers are absolutely crazy expensive to develop. It takes a significant number of engineers not only to maintain it but to build new features and keep up with web standards.

Mozilla is in a tight spot where they want to separate themselves from Google’s funding, but to do that they need to make money.

They have a user base that is very difficult to monetize.

Which means the user base which cares about privacy has put themselves in a position where they will now lose privacy in order for the tools they use to continue existing.

It’s a shitty situation all around.

I mean probably because the scripting languages typically don’t provide the lower level utilities necessary to securely wipe files?

You’re not deleting files in a typical sense. You also need to scrub over those files so they cannot be put back together forensically.

You don’t really need to justify why you want to use Windows in this case.

You use Windows because you want to, That’s reason enough.

Any further justification just provides points for folks like this to latch on to

Welcome to the majority of the internet my friend.

It really does suck

Must be nice being able to fall asleep after being woken up 😔

Definitely not tube archivist…

Development is semi-frozen. The developer is also more hostile and they need to be even to contributions from others.

And it does not store your files in a way that is self-contained. And there is no option to control the naming or organization of the files it stores.

Your file system should be navigatable and understandable without having to run software and pull information from a database in order to interpret it. Tube Archivist is far FAR from ideal media archival software IMHO.

It misses the mark in so many ways it drives me insane.

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Protocols are much more difficult to create and implement.

The barrier for technical ability and maturity is much higher. Which is why you don’t see them as often, and when you do see them they tend to suck, have massive gaps, or some other significant failing that prevents them from really scaling out.

Building reliable and robust protocols with a hobby project is a nearly impossible task, it takes a lot of effort and a lot of minds over a long period of time to settle on the specifications. And just as long to actually implement it.

Usually this requires some sort of funding and dedicated resources from the get-go. Which many of these projects lack.