it’d sad that aves doesn’t support jxl since for me its rather critical now.

None of it is “that bad”. However its understandable if contributors want to separate out and have a more open governance.

As long as they keep the licenses open where both projects can pick and choose. Some forks do so “maliciously” and change licenses to prevent upstream from pulling changes back.

I don’t understand why you thought i was talking about bringing them benefits, but since you brought it up, I often donate to projects I use and do extensive testing on git branches on nearly all the software I can.

but regardless, I wasn’t implying that it would benefit them at all.

well, it would be nice if they added some more features to the app since its pretty bare bones. Otherwise I dont see myself migrating to this.

why Berry browser? what does it offer? Personally I’ll just use chromite.

this is an extraordinarily bad take.

webnn is neat. I’m not super excited for it too much since last time I looked into it, it for sure had some issues. They seem to be addressed though. ONNX is not a terrible interface to work with either and has good platform support so that wont be an issue. I do prefer wgpu solutions however. While they don’t work with NPUs (for obvious reasons :D) they are pretty much a “program once run anywhere” solution since it supports metal, dx12 and vulkan. (Only recently got fp16 support though so most things are still rough)

but for higher perf needs I can see webnn being a lot more useful

(Not to pull rank, but my mail profile can be tracked to Netscape Navigator, across multiple OSs 😁)

just means older then I am ;D

Servo recently had a blog update where they dropped some amazing news, gmail and google chat now works, so while it’s not what you were wanting, it is some good news :D

I did. If you don’t agree fine, ok. Keep letting mozilla wasting everyones money creating a subpar browser.

literally said the exact opposite in the quoted post. But I get that reading is hard.

ofc they are, I already explained my reasoning for my comments.

for AI, a lot of what mozilla is doing is kinda… meh, llamafile is maybe useful. But mostly, the only really neat thing that is relevant to mozilla is webgpu local AI stuff which chromium has better support for anyways atm lol.

Been with firefox since it was seamonkey, and been donating regularly until around baker. Mozilla has had it’s up and downs throughout then for sure. but lately, it’s just been downs.

good thing there would be a lot more then 2m usd left.

Servo and Ladybird are progressing at an extremely rapid speed, using them as an example isn’t a good one IMO.

Appologies, I am not a tax auditor, I don’t have enough spare time to go comb through mozilla’s finances to list out every single expense mozilla has. If mozilla can’t make do on that funding, they maybe they deserve to shut it’s doors for good afterall.

Yes. Mozilla has let firefox rot. Firefox can’t even do tasks like render gradients properly (examples of such issue https://play.tailwindcss.com/9hekptcy9b https://codepen.io/art-solopov/pen/VYwwdBK. and refuse to implement stuff like webusb despite the fact that it can be done in privacy friendly ways.

I don’t think firefox is a lost cause, but I do think mozilla is a lost cause. I have little hope that mozilla will right the ship, but sometimes things happen that do give me hope.

I do think gecko is quite frankly a bad platform, there is indeed a reason why so many things use blink/chromium as a base and not gecko, is it possible to make gecko into a suitable alternative? sure, but mozilla hasn’t gotten even remotely close.

I don’t believe things like AI fund are things that should be in mozilla’s scope, at least back when I was religiously donating to mozilla, their manifesto didn’t even exist when I was, but even their old one is something more in line with what I agree with. Mozilla has changed a LOT over the years, and the return to old mozilla is what I, and many others want.

Google pays mozilla iirc around 400m a year, loosing 85% of that yeah, that sucks, sure. but yeah, there is enough to sustain firefox and thunderbird and some other things. If not, something is dreadfully wrong.

servo is an absolute gem, easy to contribute to, easy to work on, devs are super helpful, compiling doesn’t take ages nor does it kill my SSD. an absolute gem.

Last I checked pocket and VPN didn’t make that much, I was… somewhat? mistaken however, page 6 is relevant https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2024/mozilla-fdn-2023-fs-final-short-1209.pdf and indeed pocket + VPN are might actually be a significant amount of funding here, it’s hard to tell from just this since it’s lumped in with advertising.

Im just wondering what benefit is it to people that they get mozilla VPN and not one of the other ones?