Comment by geocar

> I've worked on Gecko for 10+ years, and we were constantly called names for absolutely any change we would do. Insulted and accused of the worst intentions.

I think if Gecko crashed less that'd be great.

I think if Gecko starts selling me a VPN service, and the parent org gets busy doing a bunch of real-estate investments, I wonder if you're making a web browser anymore.

> the hate towards people who actually made the web happen (Smaug, Anne, Emilo, etc…)

I'm sorry I disagree.

I am hearing them say they can't make the web happen, because it's hard and they're not very good at programming, they put so many bugs in their code they just can't fix it, and it's really interfering with their efforts to add another privacy-impacting feature that they can use to sell more ads.

I think if every one of them got hit by a bus tomorrow absolutely nothing would change on the web except maybe we'd keep XSLT for another six months.

I want to appreciate anything you've done for Gecko, but it's hard if you don't realise it's people like me made the web happen too: I've been building web applications since 1994, and my applications have run on billions of devices at this point, and paid for my house, and some twenty years ago I used XSLT.

Do you really think I should bail them out by rewriting my fully working code so they don't have to fix their smelly broken code? You really think I have no standing to be a little bit annoyed by that attitude?