That would be JR Conlin, national treasure. Worked with him on YDN in 2007 and Netflix in 2009; veterans of the Netflix API team will never forget his hack day entry, which was "Mac and Me" playing on a toaster oven.
replyWhat is he notable for in the context of Mozilla?
replyStaying out of the public eye for his entire tenure. I remain envious.
replyMaybe read the blog post? Crazy suggestion, I know.
replySkimmed it before asking. It's written for people who already know who the author is. Hence the question.
replySome mozilla software developer I guess.
replyThey still have not fixed their build system. Meson/ninja or cmake would be alternatives. Nothing to have them abandon mozconfig ... this is legacy code. The rest of the world moved on. Mozilla lives in the past.
> They still have not fixed their build system.
replyFWIW the Firefox build instructions [1] look a lot saner to me than the Chromium build instructions [2].
[1] https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/setup/linux_build.ht...
[2] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/l...
Mozilla lives in the past.
replyAnd one would hope they stay there, because all the newer stuff is far more user-hostile.
Could not agree more. I am honestly confused by the need for more than what FF/Librewolf offers and have been actively doing frontend for a long time. Plus no hassle with uBlock. And their Focus mobile browser is nice. I have the same complaints about their leadership as most but at least I feel I have some autonomy with their browser.
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