Posted on 04/07/2014 11:00:55 AM PDT by Bikkuri
Hello. I am member of Mozilla's development team and these postings here lately force me now to react. Let me first clarify one thing. I do that because someone has finally to speak out some things... Things which should clearly brought out to the public....
First, the incident about our short time CEO Eich..... many of us do NOT agree with what has happened. There has been a massive amount of pressure inside and outside of Mozilla which brought him to resign from his post.
About the ads in the new tab page... Our reasoning for this is to make us more independent moneywise and influence wise from Google Inc. - the problem is, even with that we still are unable to break free of Google in so many ways sadly!
About Australis and the so called chrome similarity: In business you have to make some compromise to get your income, there are quite a lot dependencies which often stand in the way what you can do or not do!
BUT: I really would lie if i would now say that there would be no suggestions/recommendation/expectancies coming from the side of Google Inc towards us in terms of general feature request or UI features. Which leads to Australis. I can say, without Google Australis would be a hell of more customizable as it is as end result. Again.. many do not agree with Google's influence and would like to see the relationship between Google Inc. and Mozilla terminated!
And last but not least towards this political boycott... Eich's departure is NOT the whole sickness, it is only part of the symptoms which are plaguing Mozilla. Mozilla as it is right now is torn into half. One half often does not like what the other half is planning. This and the massive amount of Third Party organization influence since a long time is leading to things like that which are damaging in a massive way Mozilla's reputation!
In the end many of us as i said do not agree with most of the above mentioned problems, the reason nobody is complaing is because it is like in every other business... criticize the leaders and you are history!
If you really feel the need for a boycott... Do it against Australis, do it against Google's influence and the influence of the ads industry into Mozilla! Stay with Firefox 28 instead of 29 or stay with Seamonkey. Drop your Google Mail, stop use Google search, write Google a message in their groups that you dislike their direct influence in many of Mozilla's business/developement decisions! We have to get independent again!
Some adresses where you can write: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mozilla.governance https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/firefox-dev
Or feel free to write your protest to #mozilla or #firefox over Twitter or contact people like Mitchell Baker.
Again... boycotting because of political reasons changes NOTHING - not when the sickness which plagues the construct goes much more deeper! Don't forget with enough support we can change nearly everything! Help us get healthy again, help us break free of limitations we are suffering right now!
After all we are Mozilla - Doing good is part of our code! And we still have not stopped to be the good guys!
With kind regards!
Can’t remember which add-on it was.. but it was a blocker... That was the only one that I wasn’t able to find (maybe incompatible)..
Other than that, all went smooth as silk for the changeover (FF -> Pale Moon).
Google is so big.... is there ANY way to slap them into shape?
why should I care about internal politics at mozilla? I’ll never use their products again. I try to avoid Google for searches and browsing and won’t buy Android. Use safari or Opera for browsing, instead.
Exactly... ixquick and startpage are 1 and the same. I was using Sqroogle before that, until google wiped them off the net :/
lmao! That was good :)
I am one of the few here that do “do” anime or manga.. but it was done well :) (I also don’t drink coffee, but good chance to change my tagline :D)
“Drink Apocalatte, the coffee of dooooom!”
darnit.. another typo because of you >.< “don’t do” .... grr.... everyone boycott DS .... ;D
Since we were talking about Assembly/Machine language.. been trying to remember the code to change the characters on the KB... I remember I once had to buy a new MoBo because I screwed up the BIOS (defs for keyboard)... If I remember correctly, I just wanted to change the ^BELL (think it was ^g back then).. Was ages ago, think around 1984 or so..
Mitch the bitch!
Here are a couple of links to the $10 million Microsoft gift:
http://www.nearshoreamericas.com/microsoft-contributes-reducing-digital-gap-latin-america/
You can find others by googling “World Vision / Microsoft / software.”
Looks like this happened in late February, early March 2014. The World Vision announcement that the board decided that it would accept employees in homosexual unions occurred on March 24, according to Christianity Today which first reported.
When you throw a burning brand at a herd of pigs, the one that squeals is the one you hit ...
You’ll be up half the night researching that code now.
It was the LA Slimes that published the names publicly.
Too late. Firefox is gone, Palemoon is in. See you later Mozilla, it was fun while it lasted!
Too late. Midori used here so far, unless it also turns out to be a creepy, weirdo browser.
Midori has been my back-up browser on Linux for awhile.
(btw.. Midori is Japanese for GREEN).
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