Seamonkey used to be simply be known as "Mozilla" or "Mozilla Application Suite", and was the original browser by Mozilla before they decided to spin off the code into the "Phoenix" and "Thunderbird" projects. Originally the plan was that Mozilla was a browser for developers and that consumers would use Netscape. However AOL laid off the Netscape developers in 2003 and focus was switched to making Phoenix, which was then called Firebird the main product of the Mozilla project, and it become known as Firefox in 2004. I was around for the original 1.0 releases of Firefox and Mozilla, and after it was clear that Firefox was more popular than the Mozilla Application Suite it was spun off into the Seamonkey project, taking the name from the original codename used in the development of the browser. In recent years, the legacy code of Seamonkey means that its rendering engine hasn't kept up with Firefox, meaning that most modern sites don't work with it anymore, but it is an interesting historical browser who's user interface hasn't changed much since the 2000s, compared to Firefox which changes its user interface regularly.
One thing I would love to happen is the opportunity for third party stores to open on older consoles that are no longer supported by their manufacturer. Imagine still being able to buy games for the 360, PS3 and Wii without having to source aging discs.
Whenever I mention a website's issue to tech support, they give me the "just use Chrome" song and dance. I have to actively protest for the right to use Firefox. If your company does this you are complicit in Google's monopoly control of the web and you probably don't support Linux either.
Gnome's thumbnails in file picker feature still hasen't been fixed in over 20 years. They recently added the code for thumbnails but it doesn't work without opening Nautilus first. I remember KDE 3.0 from 2002 had functional thumbnails. Gnome has single-handedly ruined the idea of Linux on the desktop for most people as most distros are Gnome based by default.
I know for a fact that there are a lot of unreverted vandal edits in Wikidata, because Wikidata's bots enter data so fast that it is too fast for Special:Recentchanges to monitor. Even Wikipedia still regularly gets 15+ year old hoaxes added to their hoax list.
It's a long story, I was a legitimate editor for a about a year and just built up a grudge which turned into making more unhelpful edits until I got banned. Wikipedia is not a good environment for when things go wrong.
It's basically like a endless library but with big gaps missing on the shelves, and you know that the books that are missing there were destroyed intentionally, and attempts to bring new books to the library are sabotaged. I hate parts of Wikipedia like articles for deletion, where endless debates around notability are held. The fact other sites monetize Wikipedia's rejected content infuriates me too.
Wikipedia has become the worst place on the internet for me, it's so addictive that I've been on it for decades despite being banned from editing because I vandalized it years ago. If you look at the list of "long term abuse" on Wikipedia you see a lot of addicted people taking out their frustration on Wikipedia. There is not much true difference between an admin and a vandal, in fact a lot of admins became vandals themselves, including one this month. The deletionists are the worst of all, the digital version of book burners.
I remember the period where Encarta allowed user contributions to their website but more moderated than Wikipedia. It's a shame that Microsoft gave up on Encarta too soon, it could have been a perfect integration with Bing AI and not subject to the vandalism and notability wars that Wikipedia suffers from.
Hopefully Chromium starts wanting ipv6 by default as well and starts putting a warning message on websites still using ipv4 in 2023 too. We are almost at 50% ipv6 usage according to Google, time to start pressuring the laggards.
I was an active Wikipedian back in the early days (2002-2006), and I ran for adminship twice, each time I was rejected for petty reasons. If you don't have a "perfect" account, they will pile on opposes. The only reason why so many people became admins at that time was that Wikipedia was still pretty much a "greenfield" site at the time (It had only around 700,000 articles back then, which is ~10% of what it is now), and there were plenty of volunteers signing up. Now it has become more established, and more rules have kept new generations out, similar to how boomers keep younger generations out of housing and high paying careers, despite having more education than them.
Now that Parallels, Crossover and UTM have solved the boot camp issue there is little reason to let x86 compatibility get in the way. Most of the major Mac apps have released Universal Binaries as well. It's not even been six months yet and most Macs have already transitioned. Now all we need is the Mac Pro and Macbook Pro 16" to switch.
A similar problem is when Microsoft took down the update and activation servers for Windows XP. Hacks and phone activation sometimes work, but it is a problem for people who need XP.
I have a love hate relationship with Firefox, its only major trick left is that it’s not Chromium. Making it a monopoly of the non-monopoly browsers. I tried for a while to use Waterfox and Pale Moon but they just aren’t accepted by too many websites and now even mainstream websites are locking out Firefox too.
With both Windows and MacOS both putting scary warnings and hard to bypass blocking methods on improperly signed software this could eventually lead to developers being ransomed, “pay us big money or we will revoke your certificate”. This is not the only incident like this.
Microsoft has migrated nearly all non business users to Edge. Using IE gets big scary warnings to use Edge when using Bing and MSN and most consumer websites don’t support it any more. It is safe to assume that IE usage is forced usage by companies. Web developers should boycott companies that use IE.
Why hasn't Firefox been forked yet? Not a spin off like Pale Moon or Waterfox but an actual fork of the entire codebase. With only two real browser engines remaining the potential for an independent policitally neutral browser is high. I don't know why people haven't done it yet.