I'm frustrated Google brushes aside any security and privacy concerns and just charges ahead and unleashes them onto the world. Mozilla may still think that browser-as-a-platform is important. However, they are clearly not willing to sacrifice security and privacy of users to achieve that goal.
The only reason is that Google wants to own the web stack (see Ars Technica article I'm alluding to: [1]), and no objections to what they propose, and do, will stop them. Honestly, I'm surprised they still ask other browser vendors for their positions (see, e.g. [2]), as they clearly couldn't care less.
The better statement would be "security and privacy".
> I think it's very important (https://www.jefftk.com/p/we-need-browsers-as-platforms) and I'm frustrated that Mozilla no longer does.
I'm frustrated Google brushes aside any security and privacy concerns and just charges ahead and unleashes them onto the world. Mozilla may still think that browser-as-a-platform is important. However, they are clearly not willing to sacrifice security and privacy of users to achieve that goal.
The only reason is that Google wants to own the web stack (see Ars Technica article I'm alluding to: [1]), and no objections to what they propose, and do, will stop them. Honestly, I'm surprised they still ask other browser vendors for their positions (see, e.g. [2]), as they clearly couldn't care less.
[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/09/owning-the-stack...
[2] https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/336