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warmaster@lemmy.world to Open Source@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months ago

Mozilla Say Google Search Deal Vital to Firefox's Survival

www.omgubuntu.co.uk

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Mozilla Say Google Search Deal Vital to Firefox's Survival

www.omgubuntu.co.uk

warmaster@lemmy.world to Open Source@lemmy.mlEnglish · 5 months ago
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Google's search deal with Mozilla is such a sizeable portion of its overall income that without it, Firefox would struggle to compete - or even survive,
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    Because a browser is several orders of magnitudee more complex than a website.

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      Wikimedia is even using php still. Firefox created Rust I believe, in order to advance.

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        Rust was originally created by a Mozilla dev as a hobby project. Also, the Mozilla rust team was fired in 2020 during a “restructuring”.

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          Ah weird.

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              It seems like such an import project.

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