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Another CEO for mozilla. Good or bad news?

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[–] [email protected] 133 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (33 children)

I think Mozilla could use a new CEO and I want to be optimistic. That said:

  • Red flag 1: They made someone from the BoD the new CEO. This rarely works out well
  • Red flag 2: The new CEOs CV is full of things that turned into menaces to the public and/or internet (airbnb, paypal, ebay)
[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 months ago (24 children)

I've known Mozilla being great wouldn't last forever, and there it is. Someone from those companies at the helm? Here comes the enshitification.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

We can version freeze forever. Anything that won't work in 2023 firefox is probably trash anyway.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So you can't. There are cert stores, new protocols and ciphers, and eventually u patched zero days.

I know this because I've been playing with a g3 powerboat and all the browsers at this point are no longer maintained to support the above things as of last year. The last person working on it gave up

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Not much of problem. Run in a VM, disable certificate validation. Html5 and javascript is still going to last a long long time. Anything that can't run with that is soydev shit and you don't need it.

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