Who is this person?

kentbrew · 2026-06-13T08:38:13 1781339893

That would be JR Conlin, national treasure. Worked with him on YDN in 2007 and Netflix in 2009; veterans of the Netflix API team will never forget his hack day entry, which was "Mac and Me" playing on a toaster oven.

abcd_f · 2026-06-13T08:41:06 1781340066

What is he notable for in the context of Mozilla?

flohofwoe · 2026-06-13T08:50:34 1781340634

Maybe read the blog post? Crazy suggestion, I know.

abcd_f · 2026-06-13T16:49:34 1781369374

Skimmed it before asking. It's written for people who already know who the author is. Hence the question.

altairprime · 2026-06-13T17:40:19 1781372419

Staying out of the public eye for his entire tenure. I remain envious.

shevy-java · 2026-06-13T08:12:03 1781338323

Some mozilla software developer I guess.

They still have not fixed their build system. Meson/ninja or cmake would be alternatives. Nothing to have them abandon mozconfig ... this is legacy code. The rest of the world moved on. Mozilla lives in the past.

flohofwoe · 2026-06-13T08:19:13 1781338753

> They still have not fixed their build system.

FWIW the Firefox build instructions [1] look a lot saner to me than the Chromium build instructions [2].

[1] https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/setup/linux_build.ht...

[2] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/l...

userbinator · 2026-06-13T10:03:45 1781345025

Mozilla lives in the past.

And one would hope they stay there, because all the newer stuff is far more user-hostile.

goolz · 2026-06-13T10:18:33 1781345913

Could not agree more. I am honestly confused by the need for more than what FF/Librewolf offers and have been actively doing frontend for a long time. Plus no hassle with uBlock. And their Focus mobile browser is nice. I have the same complaints about their leadership as most but at least I feel I have some autonomy with their browser.