Absolutely agree with you Freedom. This is the usual pattern and very
disappointing. Just means another fork of Firefox will be developed that'll
have no DRM, forced ads, etc ...
I'm really sick of Adobe trying to muscle in on everything. I wish they'd go
away and develop something
According to this Phoronix article, a new Firefox fork is beign developed
under the name of Pale Moon with a goal to resolve the recent disagreement
about the project direction. I hope that this will also bring native WebP
support to finally deprecate the old JPEG/PNG formats that many
Pale Moon doesn't seem new.
Also, the binaries on the website are nonfree.
Pale Moon isn't new, and its goal has nothing to do with the recent
direction of Firefox. It's been around for years (since 2009), and it's
basically just what someone thinks is practically better in a browser.
A developer has said on the Pale Moon forum that Firefox's EME system is
never
Hm, I didn't notice this. In fact, the developer of Pale Moon mentions on
that page principles of free software, by which they mean distributing
without charge. Directing people to Pale Moon would be a rather dangerous
move.
If you use it, don't use the binaries.
http://www.palemoon.org/redist.shtml
To my previous comment: I just heard about the existence of the Pale Moon
browser, I doesn't even looked at their website up until now. I simply wasn't
that much interested (about the project, not the topic). While, as stated
above, this project isn't new and that the developers doesn't
I've emailed Mozilla and it has gone onto deaf ears with no reply. Mozilla is
very set in their ways and extremely self righteous.
I've read responses from employees (like to Kuhn's recent post) and they give
an arrogant response telling the users that they are making the right choices
for
It's a recurring pattern. A business gets big and successful by giving users
what they want, then it starts telling them what they should have and looks
for ways to make more money. Then it enters a long slow decline as it
alienates more and more users who are motivated to look for
I'm not simply giving in, but if there has been a change of policy at Mozilla
(and money can have that effect) then I am not interested in their product
any more. I will simply downgrade as much as necessary to a free browser
rather than try to fight a losing battle along with the minority
Well, Even do, I don't agree with the decision of Mozilla in supporting DRM
restrictions, that is fine with me, if they choose too.
I don't use DRM NET anyhow. But to restrain me, In telling me that requires
DRM to watch a public video that has been posted as Public, for example:
teaching
I'm not going to fight it (they can do what they like) I'm just going to stop
using Firefox. It's been on my to do list since they started talking about
introducing ads, and alarm bells had been ringing already before that.
I know they won't care if they lose one user, but I don't care
Me too, two days ago i was using Ubuntu, but, the story about firefox and
adobe and the loss of identity at the ubuntu project. So today i install the
trisquel and i'm using now. It's so good! Is clean and simple and most fast.
I really like it.
The problem is doing nothing means we end up with no good options. It won't
matter if you don't use Firefox, IE, or Chrome. It still has a negative
impact because more sites will adopt this new standard knowing that all of
the important browsers have adopted it. Your non-ie-firefox-chrome
To be fair, Flash was adopted because there wasn't a better (in terms of
practicality) alternative for streaming video at all, not because of the
digital restriction feature. Videos that aren't from big producers probably
won't be affected by EME, and I'm sure video sharing sites like
Even the sandbox isn't free (or even open source) software. The CDM checks
the integrity of the sandbox, so you can't modify it. Even the open source
definition says that people need to be able to experiment with and
redistribute modifications.
So despite their claims, the browser itself
All browsers will have to adopt it at some point considering they are at the
mercy of the content providers. Heck, Firefox can't play the majority of the
HTML5 video out there since H264, AAC, and MP3 are not enabled by default for
most builds.
I just recently received this news from FSF also.
This reminds me of when Adobe released its Creative suite, free of charge, to
students at my University. Shortly after, they started pushing their cloud
software. In hindsight, I question their intentions and the effects. I know
that I am
Here is what the FSF has to say about it (scowl down for an email address to
send a complaint):
*You can read this post online at https://u.fsf.org/xk *
# FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital
Restrictions Management
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA — Wednesday,
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