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Yahoo Sues Mozilla For Breach of Contract -- So Mozilla Counter Sues Yahoo (betanews.com)
Mark Wilson writes: Mozilla and Yahoo have started a legal spat about the deal that existed between the two companies regarding the use of the Yahoo search engine in the Firefox browser. On December 1, Yahoo fired the first shot filing a complaint that alleges Mozilla breached a contract that existed between the two companies by terminating the arrangement early. In a counter complaint, Mozilla says that it was not only justified in terminating the contract early, but that Yahoo Holdings and Oath still have a bill that needs to be settled.
Is the CEO of Yahoo or the CEO of Mozilla trolling Slashdot?
Lets face it both are the Distant 3rd place players in their respected areas. With Microsoft being #2, and Google being #1.
I have found 3rd place to be an interesting place. Where you are big enough so you can innovate new ideas because you are not tied to the old idea, because it didn't really work out that well. Or you just try to fight for what you had slowly dying.
We won't find the Next generation browser or search engine from Google or Microsoft. They have too much to loose if they change it too much. But the #3 players have the ability to do something new.
Firefox Quantum is a good step, but I wouldn't call it next generation, and Yahoo is just declining.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Actually, I'm enjoying the new interface more than the old one, and it works just as well as it did before.
No, it doesn't. The new NoScript is missing a TON of features that the old one had. It's missing them because the new WebExtension API makes it impossible to implement them. Just because you're too oblivious to notice doesn't mean they're not there.
Also, complaining about the the lack of addons only a couple weeks after the release of 57 is churlish.
There's been far more time than "a couple of weeks" to port extensions. The reason extensions aren't being ported is that, in the majority of cases, it's been flat-out impossible. The extensions aren't going to be ported because it's simply impossible.
In fact, NoScript was impossible under the new API, to the point where there's now a special NoScript-only API that Mozilla added solely to get NoScript into the new Firefox. Unfortunately the new API isn't quite as complete as the old one, so it leaves NoScript a pale shadow of its former self. And I'm not talking about the horrible new UI (which is the way it is because that's all Firefox lets it do, now), I'm talking about the fact that it's missing many features that the old NoScript had.