192 karma · joined September 26, 2016
You'll miss the passwords the day your wife turns the home computer on, googles that and finds out you're in some other woman's house. All without passwords or licences. ;P
Is it our fault that other people that have had the same hundreds of years to build advanced societies haven't done it? Do we have to literally live worse because of it?
I've always seen McDonald's regarded as one of the heralds of capitalism, and I still can't find out why.
That's only in the US.
Let's be honest here, AOSP is a dead dream because porting and maintaining AOSP for a device is kinda complicated. Many people do it for free, but you can't rely on that.
1. Create a browser with ad blocking builtin or possible with addons (like Firefox).
2. Create a local proxy that blocks ads, and make the user configure it as the system proxy.
3. Require root privileges and do whatever you want (2, or maybe change /etc/hosts, like AdAway does). Yes, there are tons of apps in the Play Store that only work with root. Google never cared much about them.
What if you have wood floors? What if water shorted electrical devices? All of this could cost you thousands in repairs.
DOM painting/manipulation times in Gecko are a joke, probably the worst pain point of Firefox. And it's not the only one...
And FF-OS was a complete OS that ran on Gecko, so yes, if Gecko (FF) is slow, the entire FF-OS is slow.
Maybe they thought Gecko would be ready by the time the OS was going to ship?
I'm not the kind of person who believes in boycotting (especially in this case, where I'd be all alone it seems :-) but if I could avoid them, I would. If not, no biggie.