Hating on Threads for no reason is the circlejerk of Lemmy.

The EU alone is about 450 million people. There’s more countries in Europe than in the EU. I think you got something wrong.

That will stop working way sooner than you’d like. Freezing a browser isn’t tenable at all, not just for features websites are expecting but also security issues. There’s a reason every browser except Safari has a 6 weeks release cycle.

Firefox uses the Web Extensions standard, just like Chrome. There are minor differences here or there but largely the same, tech wise.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions

He owns 1.38% - a terribly far cry from being a majority shareholder.

https://capital.com/microsoft-shareholder-who-owns-most-msft-stock

He stepped down as CEO and all involvement in active development in 2008 even. This has nothing left of Bill Gates, not even strategy-wise.