Comment by LarryDarrell | Hacker News Reader

Comment by LarryDarrell | Hacker News Reader

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I groan whenever I see a Firefox post on the front page.

-"X moved Y pixels making Firefox UNUSABLE! So now I use Brave."

-"Mozilla is run by a bunch of SJW idiots because they ran their CEO off. So now I run Brave." (I had to look into this, as I wasn't paying attention at the time. They picked a new CEO who cared so passionately about removing the right of gay people to get married he even donated his own money to the cause. That was a dumb hill to die on. Now he's an anti-masker who actually runs Brave.)

-"My precious browser workflow was completely dependent on the interaction of 156 distinct XUL extensions so now I use Brave."

-"something, something, Mr. Robot." (that, like everything, you can turn off)

-"Ads in the address bar!" (that, like everything, you can turn off)

-"They take money from Google!" (Hey, free money, since everyone either switches to DGG or were going to use Google anyway.)

There are real criticisms you can make of Firefox/Mozilla. But on the whole, for the general user, none of them are grounds for moving to a Chromium based browser out of spite.

If I could pin your comment on all threads related to Firefox, I would. All this whining is what will finally do Firefox in.

We really don't deserve Firefox. I'm really glad they are still kicking.

They picked a new CEO who cared so passionately about removing the right of gay people to get married he even donated his own money to the cause. That was a dumb hill to die on. Now he's an anti-masker who actually runs Brave.

I disagree with some of his assumed views, as you never know until you actually speak with someone directly. Could be any number of motivations. I supported Biden not because I disagreed with a lot of what Trump did, but because I felt he was a toxic agent to the republic. Is that anti-Trump? Yes and no. And I may be the last person in existence that supports Eich's right to express them in any way he chooses. If that causes social backlash by a bunch of sensitive people that's fine, but I think there's a majority that get no press, who like me, never had it impact my view of Eich. I see no connection to the projects he has or does work on.

"Anti-masker" is broad as well. I don't think based on the science, that masks make sense for young children. I do support them for adults, indoors at least. Is that an anti-masker? It's called nuance. A concept lost in society today.

After ~19 years on Firefox I moved to Microsoft Edge and only Edge fulltime in August and love it. So I couldn't care less about FF vs Brave.

It is indeed sad.

Regarding standard discussion patters I see it often. I imagine sometimes a pinned comment that would outline those. Along with all the usual corrections and corrections to those corrections.

See, this is why deadhorse.com should exist and do the thing that I outlined here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/bg8vc/what_websi...

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