Microsoft now thirstily injects a poll when you download Google Chrome
www.theverge.com
It could be worse!
    • sir_reginald@lemmy.worldEnglish
      93·
      1 year ago

      because this is inherently Apple’s fault and not Mozilla’s.

      Apple’s the one forcing every browser on iOS to be a reskinned version of Safari. And it’s perfectly understandable that Mozilla doesn’t want to waste time and resources developing features for a Firefox-branded Safari when they could be working on their own browser.

        • sir_reginald@lemmy.worldEnglish
          82·
          1 year ago

          it’s a perfectly valid reason for not using Firefox, my point is that they’re on the wrong platform. It’s the user’s own fault, because they chose a closed platform like iOS. Developing free software for iOS is a waste of time, since everything is under Apple’s tyrannical rule and they get to decide which web engine you use, they can disallow extensions and make it very hard (and against their ToS) to sideload apps.

          I don’t like Mozilla at all, and that’s why I use Firefox derivatives and not Firefox itself, but I’m glad they don’t waste time developing for a re-skinned Safari. Those resources are best used in their own web engine.