General Discussion • Re: Pale Moon's PR Problem

Well, if you aren't tied to keeping alive a past that is largely disliked at this point , then the world is your oyster.

How do you mean?

Firefox's plummeting marketshare. Did you know it's down to 0.5% in mobile? Ouch. Doesn't mean Pale Moon devs can't continue to do what they are doing, but, at some point in the future, promoting it as a new browser that is untethered from Firefox's past would be useful. In fact, not mentioning Firefox at all, anywhere, would be quite an exciting experiment to try.

In fact, re-writing and replacing everything that is licensed in any way to Mozilla would be quite exciting. Like Richard Stallman replacing every piece of Unix with self-written GNU, GCC, emacs, etc back in the day. Probably an enormous task. But at the end you'd have a whole new thing. And who in their right mind would not want to try a whole new thing, that, unlike recent versions of Lady Bird, actually browses the web. And leaves less attack surface than other browsers because it is single process.

Now that's something to think about. I wonder how many full time devs it would take to re-write and replace anything licensed to Mozilla? Probably a lot. But boy would it be cool.