Firefox users: Mozilla's plan is troubling

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I will concede one point. It's safer than I thought. However, that doesn't mean much given how poorly of it I thought.

If Firefox's future doesn't include security at its core, and it hasn't for a while now, it has no future. Someone in those comments mentioned servo, and if that actually happens, I'll gladly change my tune. But today, FF should be avoided.

Mozilla was way behind in 2016 at the time of the comments above. Now in 2017, the new FF is being included in the pwn2own contests and performs roughly on par with other well known browsers.

Saying Mozilla future doesn't include security at its core untrue. The whole shift toward a new engine with multiprocess design, sandboxed extensions are all meant to provide security. And the new webextensions standard has cross browser compatibility eg MS Edge and Chrome. In the past the old FF extensions had full access to the main FF process internals which is unsafe and would break whenever FF got updated.

Its the Palemoon, Cyberfox nutcases which are angry that they can't leech off Mozilla anymore instead of being happy that the old dodgy single process design is gone.