I still love Firefox... but Mozilla's not making it easy.

What hurts in this article is them saying that to get us to love Firefox again they plan on scaling back the VPN and email masking services, which I felt were actually decent, and instead pushing more into advertising and AI, which I would much rather they just drop altogether.

How about instead helping advance #Servo and start integrating more with other FOSS, privacy friendly protocols (eg ActivityPub,Matrix,XMPP...)

The fastest non-Google controlled web rendering engine Servo is trying to compete with only $1.6k funding a month:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-Engine-May-2024

Yes, they did have an NLNet grant, but that ran out.

If we want an alternative to Blink/Chrome, we need to fund it. This is a project where even a tiny regular amount could yield oversize returns:

https://servo.org/

#Servo #Rust #Blink #Google #Chrome

Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine

Servo is a web rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications.

^Servo