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if you *absolutely, positively, must* use a Chromium, consider Vivaldi. do not use Opera. do not use Brave.

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if you’re (rightly!) pissed at Firefox for doubling down on AI nonsense, as a web developer I would humbly request that you consider trying Waterfox, Orion or Safari before you move to something based on Chromium; Google are already too powerful, don’t hand the web to them

Microsoft won the First Browser War, and the Web was worse for it.

Google won the Second Browser War, and the Web is worse for it.

There will be a third, because monopolies only stagnate, regress, and fester. But 's chance to lead the way to a better World Wide Web has today gone from small to none.

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Take a break before you need it. It will make it easier to prevent burnout.

May you never lose your whimsy or your ability to be silly. 💜

Trivia: I switched to when it was named Phoenix (or just changed name to Firebird, IDR) because IE became not-a-choice, Netscape 4 was buggier on NT/2K than 9X, Netscape 6 was too crashy, and the Mozilla Suite (later reborn as SeaMonkey) was overkill for my needs.

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It's once again the season for the Plan 9 from Outer Space of Christmas movies, a festive movie so bad it's good, "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians":

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Cl

Mozilla has a new CEO who:

- Has been at Mozilla for less than a year
- Has no prior open source experience (but well in "fintech" and "real estate")
- Has a MBA (aka "brainworm diploma")
- Is all-in on AI

That’s exactly the kind of bingo profile the whole community has been waiting for.

I don't want a modern browser. If I did, I'd either install or switch back to Windows and use .

I switched to and stayed with because I want a World Wide Web browser.

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The GM who added the poisoned chalice of to the browser, Anthony Enzor-DeMeo, is now the Corporation CEO.

In his first post as CEO, "Mozilla’s next chapter: Building the world’s most trusted software company", he explains how he'll do the exact opposite by making Firefox "a modern AI browser."

blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/le

No, you’re not a “prompt engineer”, you’re a sloperator.

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Going to start referring to people bringing ai “art” etc where it’s not wanted, as Sloperatives.

pbs.org/newshour/nation/merria

I'm on the server floor of a "highly secure data center with 24/7/365 surveillance, direct access control and robust perimeter security".

An actual duck just walked by. 🦆

The panic is absolutely glorious. I think this just became one of the highlights of my life.

"Hello, We're Firefox, The Only Browser That Hasn't Hit Itself In The Dick With A Hammer. For years now, folks use us because of our un-hammered dick. Now, you may be wondering why today we've brought this hammer and pulled out our dick. Well I'm glad you asked--"

English is such a wonderful language that the adjective for one-syllable words, "monosyllabic," is a very polysyllabic word.

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