Post #4175752

2026-07-28 22:56 UTC

Plenty of discussion to be had about what should belong in the core of a browser, and what should be relegated to outside of the main source tree. And I think reasonable people can disagree about certain features. But can we all agree that the world would be a better place if the Firefox source tree did not have a module that cares about when the 2026 World Cup began?

Replies (4)

@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social 2026-07-28 23:11

I understand politically/organizationally why this module exists, and I understand that Mozilla's priorities will never be my priorities. But given the number of conversations/messages I've had in recent days on the topic of "how many lines of code browsers have / how complex they are." I would just like for it to be understood that much of that complexity isn't inherent to the nature of browsers, it doesn't need to be there (or in many cases, anywhere)

Open ##4179653
@lvmbdv_was_taken@mastodon.social 2026-07-28 23:00

@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social Blasphemy, in the year of 0 AWC (After World Cup) !!

Open ##4199350
@dalias@hachyderm.io 2026-07-28 23:20

@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social WTF is even the point of that hack? Do we even want to know?

Open ##4208553
@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems 2026-07-29 01:58

@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social ok fuck it, I'll dust off my C++ knowledge and dig into the cleansing

Open ##4221412