▲ 1338 ▼ Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are “as painful as possible” for Firefox (www.theverge.com) submitted 2 years ago by glowie@h4x0r.host to c/technology@lemmy.world 170 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] vinhill@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago (1 child) Cost of development was 221 mio in 2022 https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2022/mozilla-fdn-2022-fs-final-0908.pdf permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] fromaj_debite@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Same magnitude. We can not fork firefox with serious support permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] vinhill@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago* (1 child) Yeah, I guess your point stands. But also, it's 221 mio for Mozilla as a whole. Firefox might again be a fraction of this. While e.g. the Linux foundation has a lower budget, with all the contributed work hours of volunteers / corporations, a fork of Firefox is more realistic than the 500 mio make it out to be. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] fromaj_debite@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago It is not the same software. A lot of drivers are developed externally for Linux. You can not do that with Firefox. Firefox is the main project of Mozilla permalink fedilink source parent
[–] fromaj_debite@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Same magnitude. We can not fork firefox with serious support permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] vinhill@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago* (1 child) Yeah, I guess your point stands. But also, it's 221 mio for Mozilla as a whole. Firefox might again be a fraction of this. While e.g. the Linux foundation has a lower budget, with all the contributed work hours of volunteers / corporations, a fork of Firefox is more realistic than the 500 mio make it out to be. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] fromaj_debite@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago It is not the same software. A lot of drivers are developed externally for Linux. You can not do that with Firefox. Firefox is the main project of Mozilla permalink fedilink source parent
[–] vinhill@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago* (1 child) Yeah, I guess your point stands. But also, it's 221 mio for Mozilla as a whole. Firefox might again be a fraction of this. While e.g. the Linux foundation has a lower budget, with all the contributed work hours of volunteers / corporations, a fork of Firefox is more realistic than the 500 mio make it out to be. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] fromaj_debite@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago It is not the same software. A lot of drivers are developed externally for Linux. You can not do that with Firefox. Firefox is the main project of Mozilla permalink fedilink source parent
[–] fromaj_debite@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago It is not the same software. A lot of drivers are developed externally for Linux. You can not do that with Firefox. Firefox is the main project of Mozilla permalink fedilink source parent