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[–] veniasilente@lemm.ee 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Serious question re the auth part:

Have you tried submitting PRs? Much of the complaints that I see about the development side of Firefox are grounded on the fac that "they won't have this cool thing that Chrome has", ignoring that those things are usually dangerous or are rejected for justified, studied reasons (see: WebUSB). Sounds just about the area where auth would have issues, and it'd be interesting to see what Firefox's actual response was.

Who knows, maybe they're cluing you that you shouldn't depending on Google...

[–] febra@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Well, as much as I like Firefox (and I even donate to the Mozilla foundation), I know for a fact that companies won't pay their programmers money to make PR on Firefox.

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I did try, unfortunately, in something as big as a browser it's very time consuming to even fix simple bugs without side effects.

[–] veniasilente@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

True. Browsers are so damn complex these days!