I think Mozilla should focus on that. Yes. But instead they sink money in AI bullshit and other so-called “social” projects that have nothing to do with web browsers or their standards.

Focussing on the browser means focussing on web standards, too.

Since basically forever I use DejaVu Sans for UI elements and DejaVu Mono for the terminal.

Yeah, don’t let us be too nitpicky here. They intentionally make it not run on Linux because of their spyware. So it’s entirely their fault.

Maybe I’m a bit stupid, but where the fuck is the code in that repo? All files seem to be just some sort of structured meta data and stuff.

that’s not the developers fault.

Forcing Ring0 spyware on the users IS the developers fault by 100%.

That poor IT support person:

I think the reason is stupid and it is contrary to what I expect from dockerized applications.

lolwhat

Did you miss the part where Mozilla spends most of their money for not the browser?

The money sources are not the issue. The money sinks are. An no-one ever yelled at Mozilla to offer a VPN.

Their other projects mostly exist, because those make money.

Except the projects that don’t make money.

docker ps or Portainer as a nice web-UI wrapper around the Docker commands are the two main use cases with Docker I have have on a regular basis.

No, thank you. I am not going to maintain fifty containers and fifty + X volumes for just a handful of applications and will alway prefer self-contained applications over applications that spread over multiple containers for no real reason.

Their financial reports are public.

https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2024/b200-mozilla-foundation-form-990-public-disclosure-ty23.pdf

See it in a broader scope. If I’d only host Lemmy with is multiple mandatory things, I couldn’t care less, but I already have some other applications that I run via Docker. Fortunately I was able to keep the footprint small, no multiple containers or volumes for one application, but as said: those exist. And they would clutter the setup and make it harder to maintain an manage.

I also stand by my point that it is counter-intuitive to have multiple containers and volumes for just one single application.

I said it elsewhere already, but the new logo reminds me of a broken OSD from a really old CRT television where the channel number wasn’t overlayed but directly added to the video stream by the tuner hardware.

If you want to stay within the fediverse, maybe have a look at federated blogging/publishing platforms like WriteFreely or Plume. (Both are also selfhostable).

Edit:

WriteFreely: https://writefreely.org/
Plume: https://joinplu.me/

They could also stop all this nonsense crap projects they sink money in without any real benefit, and focus mainly on the browser. This would give the browser likely 500% more funding than it has right now.

Have one product, but make it a perfect product.

Even the worst default browser on the worst cheap China phone from the worst grey market is an upgrade to mobile Firefox. This is just a dumpster fire since release and Mozilla never cared about it even one single bit. You cannot even set a homepage in this junkware excuse for a browser.

To me, the point of Docker is having one container for one specific application. And I see the database as part of the application. As well as all other things needed to run that application.

Since we’re here, lets take Lemmy for example. It wants 6 different containers with a total of 7 different volumes (and I need to manually download and edit multiple files before even touching anything Docker-related).

In the end I have lemmy, lemmy-ui, pictrs, postgres, postfix-relay, and an additional reverse proxy for one single application (Lemmy). I do not want or need or use any of the containers for anything else except Lemmy.

There are a lot of other applications that want me to install a database container, a reverse proxy, and the actual application container, where I will never ever need, or want, or use any of the additional containers for anything else except this one application.

So in the end I have a dozen of containers and the same amount of volumes just to run 2-3 applications, causing a metric shit-ton of maintenance effort and update time.

To me the number one thing is, that it is easy to setup via Docker. One container, one network (ideally no network but just using the default one), one storage volume, no additional manual configuration when composing the container.

No, I don’t want a second container for a database. No I don’t want to set up multiple networks. Yes, I already have a reverse proxy doing the routing and certificates. No, I don’t need 3 volumes for just one application.

Please just don’t clutter my environment.

Because back then the Internet wasn’t controlled by just a few big corporations.