Comment by gaigalas

Comment by gaigalas 21 hours ago

What killed Firefox was Electron. There, I just said it.

XUL was very good, but then it was no more. And as soon as it was gone, Electron apps appeared. It's a tragedy. Mozilla had everything to be in that place instead, with a better product.

Once that was gone, Firefox became just another browser, doing what any browser does. It's still very good, and my first choice, but damn I miss XUL.

suprjami 12 hours ago

I miss it too, but I don't see how Mozilla Prism can be related to the company's success or failure.

How do you suggest Electron makes money for OpenJS?

You can still make PWAs backed by Firefox:

https://github.com/linuxmint/webapp-manager

This has not made Linux Mint any richer.

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gaigalas 11 hours ago

The money is always ads.
What Electron does is project presence. It's not huge, but also not insignificant.
If Mozilla controlled "the thing developers use to make desktop webapps", they would have more presence. I also think their solution was nicer, and developers would have loved it.
Firefox was a thing for developers for a while. And that made it healthy.

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