Good to see development effort going towards actual Firefox and not those random Mozilla products that I can’t keep track of
Do you mean products like their VPN? They really need the revenue to try and become more independent from Google. Right now something like 90% of their income comes from a deal with Google to make Google the default search engine.
They should make a search engine. If Kagi can do it, why can’t Mozilla? Because it would upset Google…
There is no real competition. Google has mozilla in a strangehold and they are fine for mozilla to do privacy stuff, but not fine with them competing for real.
They should make a search engine. If Kagi can do it, why can’t Mozilla?
The biggest provider of Kagi’s results is Google. They are unique in that they have their own Tinygem and Teclis indexes to augment results, though. Mozilla could certainly operate a plain Google proxy like Mullvad does with Leta, but I don’t think they’d be making more money out of it than just agreeing to Google’s exclusive terms.
Building a search engine with an independent index is hard. Mojeek has done the best job of it, but you can tell there’s a disparity in result quality even if they’re improving.
Yes I know, but users may pay mozilla for added privacy, just like they are paying Kagi now for privacy and extra features on top of Google.
But you are right, they are still depending on the monster that is Google.
I would be interested in seeing Mozilla invest in making Mojeek better. I think they could be a good match. An independent browser engine and an independent search engine. On the other hand, I don’t want Mozilla to acquire them and kill them a few years later. Their short attention span is one quality I wish they hadn’t cribbed from Google.
A search engine is an interesting idea, but:
- it needs to be independent. Mozilla can’t be depending on Google or Bing. After Bing got what they wanted, they started choking their proxies by pushing prices up substantially. Depending on Google is a similar folly.
- they need to be committed to it. This isn’t some project Mozilla can cook up in three or four years and abandon two years later. It needs to be a long-term strategy with hundreds of millions of dollars invested.
That’s why I think Mojeek could be a shortcut. But either way, I don’t think Mozilla has the bandwidth (or guts, frankly) to commit to this sort of project.
But you are right, they are still depending on the monster that is Google.
And as long as you’re depending on them, you might as well take as much as you can.
Would to see them publish stable releases via this apt repository as well.
Deb monoculture is a sick plague
I am sure there will be a aur package soon bundling this deb into a arch package. So nothing to worry about (for the good package managers)
Hehehe. What about RPM users? This fragmentation in Linux packaging robs users of choice.
Would rather have Firefox setup a repository for the nightly channel, after all they official maintain the stable channel on Flathub.
That way everyone benefits from the utility.
kinda wish they would put nightly on fdroid too instead of just google play or through the website
You don’t even build from source?
What kind of Linux users are you?
Ok Gentoo Police now go back to ricing
Never built Firefox from source but Chromium takes way longer than the kernel for me. Like half an hour on a 5800x3D. Bit much for nightly updates.
It’s called Nightly cause you let it compile over night.
Good :)
After the disaster with colorways, mozilla has picked up the pace and started being sane again.
Some day they will offer linux version that you can download from from the website and install without using terminal.
Whilst I agree that that’s a nice option to have (more options are usually better!) I’ve come to love the linux way of distribution via repositories. These days I barely use the cli too: GNOME software and KDE’s Discover are great. Perhaps an official nightly flatpak would be best?
