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New comment by megnu in "Leaving Mozilla"

megnu — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:38:02 +0000

> You did not read the comments of this submission?[1] This is common.[2][3][4][5] And those were comments which were easy to find because they said Firefox and VPN.

Fair, there are complaints out there, but I'd rank the response very mild compared to AI and the upcoming Nova design.

> Many other comments said they should focus on Firefox solely. Or eliminate all side projects.

Of course, since most of their money comes from search royalties for having Firefox users.

> People can give money to Mozilla Corporation by purchasing Firefox Relay, Mozilla Monitor, Mozilla VPN, or MDN Plus. Rules for businesses to solicit donations are strict. Mozilla would have to be more careful than most because people confuse non profit Mozilla Foundation and for profit Mozilla Corporation. It is well known in fund raising most people who say they would donate will not donate. And many of the small minority of Firefox users who said they would donate implied or said plainly a condition was Mozilla would abandon other income.

Yes, but what I'm saying is there's no general opposition from "enthusiasts" to Firefox making money like the parent commenter stated. The more popular take I've seen is to support Firefox via paying for VPN, etc.

New comment by megnu in "Leaving Mozilla"

megnu — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:53:35 +0000

I didn't hear any enthusiasts complain about the new VPN integration, which helps fund the browser. A paid email service is also something many have been asking for a while. People even want to donate money for browser development, but can't due to the foundation structure.

New comment by megnu in "LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation"

megnu — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:42:00 +0000

Gnumeric is great. It's the only one that holds up with massive CSV files and remains snappy. So I tend to prefer it. Functions are more limited than Calc though.

New comment by megnu in "EmDash – a spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

megnu — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:47:35 +0000

The UI doesn't seem geared to power users. E.g. Why is the featured image taking up so much space above the content editing area when it's sized appropriately for the sidebar? Imagine you need to update the text of several posts... Well, now you gotta scroll down half the page to the content area of each one.

And all that padding gets you quite the narrow content area. Not to mention it looks like a very basic TinyMCE. Seems like more of a POC than an actual "spiritual successor".

New comment by megnu in "Security vulnerability found in Rust Linux kernel code"

megnu — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:22:05 +0000

I use a uBlock Origin filter to block the anime girl from loading:

  ! Title: Hide Anubis Image
  */.within.website/x/cmd/anubis/static/img/*.webp$image