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Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

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The Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Firefox browser maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the organization says it faces a “relentless onslaught of change.”

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Chrome's engine was originally forked from WebKit. That makes them too similar (even years later) for WebKit to count as a real alternative.

[–] ravhall 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The point is to leave a google controlled ecosystem… which means it counts as a valid alternative. What would you suggest besides chromium and gecko?

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 17 minutes ago (1 children)

w3m

[–] ravhall 1 points 4 minutes ago

Haha. So I really do wish that all websites had a text version, or like markdown. Can you imagine how damn speedy things would be? Every website would have the same layout. As much as I appreciate good web design, there’s a lot of bad UI choices out there.