In other words, we all saw this coming years ago and Mozilla has failed to realize it until it was too late. I had glimmers of hope that their Quantum browser can be the solution but it turns out to be a major flop.
As a result & hate to say this, Firefox is on life support and the last viable true open option would go away. For mobile especially, Chrome has already won that war. Wonder if Onion browsers would move to Chromium?
@mikehoss I still like Pocket despite their maintenance mode development now. I have to wonder now how long Mozilla can survive this downward spiral? My guess is that they might be acquired by someone down the road.
@mikehoss I'd pay for Pocket (I already use it), but there's not a single extra feature in the premium version which I want. Also, you can't rename items (and sometimes their title detection breaks), and you can only *sometimes* set a title via their API
@joe I can't imagine Tor, et al shifting to Chromium - incompatible with their privacy mantra. I support Moz because the open web is an invaluable resource, but if FF falls, Google will own the internet. @33MHz@mikehoss@jeremycherfas@hutattedonmyarm
@thedoctor I don't see that either but they may not have a choice if Firefox goes away (unless someone forks it), which could mean that Google would control most of the web if not already.
@joe@hutattedonmyarm@jeremycherfas@mikehoss@33mhz if Firefox/Mozilla did go under, I would hope some org like Tor or EFF would be able to secure enough of their assets to restart Firefox. Kind of like 8tracks, which is apparently alive again.
@joe if Firefox fell, it would be Chromium and the teeny tiny market share that Safari holds (which lets face it, is irrelevant). Not a promising future for the open web.
@joe she is a bit optimistic throughout, but her message at the end of the article seemed pretty stark. It also bothered me that she did not capitalize the start of sentences, so I did not read as closely as I should have.