tk, 6 minutes ago to apple

Most Web-savvy folks know that Chrome’s lineage can be traced back to Safari (WebKit, etc.), and be traced further back to KDE’s Konquerer (KHTML, etc.).

But did you know that Apple was also considering Mozilla’s Gecko engine as the basis back when planning development of Safari? KHTML was chosen because the codebase was significantly cleaner than the XPCOM bloat in Gecko. (That name still strikes fear in me to this day. :blobfoxscared: ) Interestingly, the Gecko codebase has been since cleaned up significantly.

That means that, if things had gone differently, Gecko could’ve ended up as the browser engine that rules the world today. :blobfoxgoogly:

#Apple #Safari #Google #Chrome #Mozilla #Firefox #Web #webdev

SirTapTap, 33 minutes ago to random

It's not the most important thing going on at #Mozilla but to me it's an incredibly huge warning sign that just after they got their new CEO, they were supposed to reveal an upgrade to their very nice Mozilla Observatory security practice scanner

https://observatory.mozilla.org/

The update meant for January has been delayed without date since then. No information or changes at all other than them awkwardly removing the date a month after it was overdue

amarok, 1 hour ago to random

✉️ For the 2nd time I gave #FairEmail a chance, but sorry, no... the setup and settings are so confusing and complex, I am really not able to use it (saying that as a geek is quite surprising, isn't it).
#K9mail remains the best free & opensource email client for #AndroidOS. It is the official #Thunderbird app for mobile. Thank you, #Mozilla @thunderbird https://k9mail.app/