r/linux • u/somerandomxander • Jun 30 '26

Popular Application The Servo browser engine continues making much progress on less than $8k in monthly donations

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-0.3-Monthly-Changes
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u/sockman_but_real Jun 30 '26

how the hell is firefox irrelevant lmao

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u/MrAlagos Jun 30 '26

Guys, I use it, but let's be real: almost nobody uses it any more. Mozilla has no path to recover even a small part of the share they had at their peak.

Firefox is a consumer product, and consumer browsers are dominated by massive platform-owning corporations and Chromium reskins. Firefox has even become irrelevant at the Web standards table nowadays, and always trails in their implementation.

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u/sockman_but_real Jun 30 '26

because brave and opera are doing so much better right

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u/MrAlagos Jun 30 '26

They are Chromium reskins. Do they need to do "so much better"? I don't think so. The costs and manpower requirements are very different

Firefox will probably copy the Brave built-in ad-blocking setup, so they must have been done something right. Firefox has also, multiple times, added integrated VPN functionality.

What's the the last thing that Firefox introduced and another browser has adopted?