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Comment by webmobdev

4 years ago

Sure, one could argue that. But note that even Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, the co-founder of Opera (who even built their own independent browser engine), also chose Chromium to build the new Vivaldi browser. Everyone avoids Firefox codebase because it is a mess (on purpose, so that others can't build a competing browser with it). As for Brendan Eich, I honestly believe that someone wanted him removed to weaken Firefox's growth and development, and they successfully used "cancel culture" to do so. After all, what does one's political beliefs have to do with one's technical and management skills (especially when they are able to compartmentalise and separate it from their professional life)?