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> Why not give every user a base URL for their personal site, and serve pages under it directly from the browser running on their computer?
Your description reminds me of Beaker, the "peer-to-peer Web browser".
I feel like Mozilla could do more to fund and otherwise support/promote such efforts for re-decentralizing the web, to bring the power balance back to the user.
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I kind of like how they listed CRLSets as a goal for Firefox to implement.
For people who don't kmow what that is: It's a hash that contains also the serial number as a hash, so it's local sensitive and identifiable. [1]
No, of course the server part on how google creates this, is not open source.
Honestly, this document reads like a corporate marketing document where the author doesn't seem to care about anything anymore.
[1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/net/ce...
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For me, before Firefox 57, it worked superbly for me. Afterwards, of my 13 essential addons, only 2 still worked and one of those was trivial and unimportant.
It destroyed my browser and drove me away from using Firefox after nearly 20 years, dozens of computers and ½ dozen different operating systems.
Other cut functionality:
The best cross-platform FOSS email client, by far, is Mozilla Thunderbird. Mozilla has repeatedly tried to kill it.
https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/30/mozilla_thunderbird_h...
Mozilla also has cut off Seamonkey, the original Mozilla Internet Suite.
https://www.seamonkey-project.org/
Mozilla code is the one remaining FOSS WYSIWYG HTML editor, as included in Seamonkey.
It threw it out.
So far the following forks tried to maintain it:
Kompozer: https://sourceforge.net/projects/kompozer/
NVu: http://www.nvu.com/
BlueGriffon: http://bluegriffon.org/
Mozilla has no real idea why people use Firefox or what they want. It has forced wildly unpopular new features on people, such as the Australis theme.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/974802
It's forced telemetry that kicked the entire browser offline for millions:
https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/18/foxstuck_firefox_brow...
And yet it includes a huge complicated "developer mode" that 99.9% of users never want and never see.
Mozilla's Boot2Gecko became FirefoxOS which became KaiOS, the fastest-growing mobile OS in the world.
Mozilla abandoned FirefoxOS.
KaiOS is proprietary. Mozilla licensing should make that illegal. Is Mozilla enforcing it? No. Who wrote the license? Mozilla CEO Mitch Baker.
Salary: $3 million in 2020.
Also 2020: Mozilla fired 250 people, quarter of its workforce.
