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@nekohayo@mastodon.social · Dec 19, 2025

#Mozilla choosing to kill embeddable Gecko (make it a #Firefox only engine, essentially) over a decade ago was such a tragic mistake.

Alternative browsers & desktop apps had no choice but to go with WebKit or Blink/Electron.

As a result, Mozilla have nobody to blame but themselves for their minuscule marketshare and nil developer mindshare today.

Further readings:
* https://lwn.net/Articles/436412/ (circa 2011)
* https://www.chrislord.net/2016/02/24/the-case-for-an-embeddable-gecko/ from @Cwiiis@mastodon.social
* https://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2016/03/07/the-gecko-monoculture/ from @Yoric@tabletop.social

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@MichalBryxi@mastodon.world · Dec 19, 2025

@Gargron@mastodon.social Ditto for #Mozilla & #blockchain. I would love to be the proverbial fly on the wall to get the sense of how do *clearly* bad decisions like this happen.

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@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org · Dec 18, 2025
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@elilla@transmom.love · Nov 17, 2025

If you haven't cancelled #Mozilla yet, check out https://tabstack.ai/

yes that's a captcha-dodger scraper bot for "AIs". as a service. powered by the Mozilla Corporation. now you know how they're planning to make bank.

oddly under-the-cover project, isn't it? not even showing in search engines. I wonder why :thaenkin:

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