> Mozilla is seemingly on its way to certain bankruptcy.
Mozilla has hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and over a billion in investments according to their last financial statement -- so, no, they are not.
It doesn’t matter much what they have in cash and non-liquid assets if they don’t have a balanced budget.
90% of Mozilla’s direct income (cash) comes from Google. And it looks like that funding may go away soon [1].
If Firefox had a big marketshare they might be able to capitalise on that, but right now it’s the lowest it’s ever been, and they keep on burning bridges.
More of you switch to data-harvesting Chromium derivatives and scams, and we'll have no true alternative browser, the only one that is Manifest V2 compatible.
All the extensions I’ve implemented runs fine as V3 manifests, and they allow much more fine-grained security permissions. That’s something I’m happy with, even as a developer. It limits the security impact of whatever flaws my extension may have.
> uBlock Origin relies heavily on the webRequest API to block unwanted content before it loads. Under MV3, the webRequest API is limited, and extensions are encouraged to use the new declarativeNetRequest API instead. This new API allows for predefined rules but lacks some of the dynamic capabilities that uBlock Origin utilizes for advanced content blocking.
Some may want extensions with unchecked, unrestricted permissions to be able to do all-the-things (tm).
Me on the other hand (and possibly others), with open-source projects often going haywire and crazy over time, feel more comfortable knowing that extensions cannot do more than I have permitted them.
I guess this is for the market to decide. If V2 provides enough value for enough users, it will stick around.
> If V2 provides enough value for enough users, it will stick around.
Unless these snowflakes enter panic mode because "Mozilla is selling all my files" and stop using Firefox for reasons that cannot be explained by logic, which I see is majority of news unfolding after Mozilla changed their wording.
I guess we should expect more incidents like this the time to come.