On 9/29/24 10:20 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Yes, but why has FF shrugged off the standard presentation of a > program window?
Because they want to. Because other browsers do it. Because Desktop Environments have started to do it. Because none of these three groups care what users want. > And why is it allowed to get away with it? Better ask why gnome is allowed to get away with it. The reason why Mozilla is allowed to get away with it is much more obvious: Mozilla is a for-profit corporation, and Firefox is a side project for them which they avoid talking about because browsers embarrass them. This makes Firefox trend towards being as bad as every other browser already is (Firefox is still edging by on being a bit better than the competition, for now), but writing a browser from scratch that supports currently existing websites (i.e. isn't a toy like lynx) is a challenging endeavor and there is very little competition at all. (It is fascinating that there is actually any competition at all. But Ladybird does exist, somehow!) -- Eli Schwartz
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