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For me, it makes it hard to support them but I'll reserve too much judgement until we see the fate of MDN and their other developer projects. It seems pretty assured that the previously awesome Firefox developer tools and developer edition won't be getting anywhere near as much love.
I completely appreciate that they need to make money somehow and will be keeping a keen eye on their future endeavours. It does not make this sting any less though.
If less developers use Firefox and as a result less testing is done in Firefox, resulting in more bugs in websites in Firefox, this will surely have an impact on the satisfaction of other end users. Perhaps they just don't see Firefox as their main priority now either?
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For me, it makes it hard to support them but I'll reserve too much judgement until we see the fate of MDN and their other developer projects. It seems pretty assured that the previously awesome Firefox developer tools and developer edition won't be getting anywhere near as much love.
I completely appreciate that they need to make money somehow and will be keeping a keen eye on their future endeavours. It does not make this sting any less though.
If less developers use Firefox and as a result less testing is done in Firefox, resulting in more bugs in websites in Firefox, this will surely have an impact on the satisfaction of other end users. Perhaps they just don't see Firefox as their main priority now either?