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Ladybird - a brand new browser engine that isn't Google or Mozilla (ladybird.org)

submitted 5 months ago by possiblylinux127 to c/freesoftware

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If they aren't funding Mozilla, which is a far more significant company with a long history of browser development, the chances they're gonna fund a brand-new browser that very few people have even heard about is next to none.

[–] possiblylinux127 -4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They aren't funding Mozilla as Mozilla is built on egg shells

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

While mozilla/firefox is indeed a giant mess of legacy code: Why would a company instead support a hobbyist project with almost zero resources?

At that point we are in the mythical "What if the small business of the world united and made their own product" territory

[–] possiblylinux127 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It doesn't have zero resources. It has at least 1.2 million dollars

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent 5 points 5 months ago

It is not exclusively Firefox but Mozilla corp has 750 staff and 593 million in revenue according to Wikipedia.

One million is maybe ten part time developers for a year.