Disabled by default, as of yet.

And another set of features to disable.

No, why? That is an utterly stupid idea. No-one should be able to edit some else’s posts. Even more: posts should be audit-proof.

If a post contains content that is not allowed, the post should be deleted, that’s it.

On my company mail account I have collected circa 10000 mails during the past 10 years, which is circa 80 mails a month - and that is a lot.

If you’re not following multiple high-volume mailing lists since a decade and archive every single e-mail I don’t think its normal to have 50000 mails in a mailbox.

Edge cases are not the norm, though.

This is why no-one in the right mind uses Sylpheed, but the actively maintained fork Claws Mail (which just recently had a new version released).

Navigating a combination of the distro’s native package manager (apt, pacman, rpm, whatever), snap, flatpack and still having to set up the maintainers’ custom repositories to get stuff that’s even remotely up-to-date somehow

This sounds like a you problem, to be honest. If you want the most up-to-date software, just use a distribution that updates very often or uses a rolling-release concept.

The different UI toolkits, desktop environment, window manager and compositor seem to be fighting each other.

If you use one of them, not that much. If you start mixing them it becomes a huge mess. At one point in time I had Ubuntu installed, running Gnome, but having Openbox as window manager set. It was an absolute mess. Nowadays I think it’s even more of a mess, especially with gnome and this stupid Adwaita library with the stupid CSM.

But I happily ran pure Openbox on X11 for a decade and run labwc on Wayland since ca. 2 years now.

I do a lot of .NET programming and photo editing. I could probably replace VS with VScode or Ryder but it’s an additional hurdle. For photo editing, I haven’t found a single thing that fits my workflow the way Bridge, Camera Raw and Photoshop do.

Then stick with Windows. Or run this software in VM with GPU pass-through and KVM. I really don’t see an issue here. Use the tool that best fits your needs.

There will always be this one asshole of a coworker who happily name-dropping you in a conference call with the project owner.

They are the worlds laziest coders and google paid them 20M a year to do nothing for…

Only a fraction of a fraction of this is actually used in relation to the browser, and only a fraction of this goes to the actual coders/developers.

I am sure the devs do the best work they can do and are allowed to do. This is entirely a management issue.

What the …? Then why do it on the first place. Mozilla being stupid again.

… after removing them and ignoring them for several years.

After seven years of active development

I wonder where they got this from. The 2.x branch was first released 21 years ago.

That’s the downside, yes.

Write an ungodly large amount of code-comments - up to a point where you add 20 lines of explanations to a 6 lines long function where two lines are variables assignments.

Source code is for humans to read. The compiler ignores the comments.

Yeah, but it is just “fine”.

Most of your money goes to CEO salary and not towards developing Firefox.

Absolutely. I highly doubt people are willing to donate for paying millions of Dollars to a CEO.

users can disable ad blockers on conforming websites.

We all know that this won’t happen. In reality there are only two major groups of people: Those who do not use ad blockers and have accepted ads everywhere, and those who use ad blockers and accept ads nowhere.

Grabbing the money while it’s still there …

Overall, I don’t think Mozilla is wrong. Without the Google Search deal, Firefox will have less resources to build a competent browser.

The vast majority of the corporations income does not go to Firefox anyways. Their financial reports are publicly available, everyone can read them.

I have zero sympathy for the corporation and I hope they go bankrupt and that the devs forking the browser and develop it as a standalone product independent of the Mozilla-owned Firefox.