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Migrating to librewolf right now. Fuck this shit
There will be no Librewolf without Firefox though.
Isn’t it maintained independently?
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Source code doesn’t magically disappear when the company who made it goes off the rails. LibreWolf will be just fine.
Who's going to develop security and feature updates for it? The Librewolf devs certainly won't have the man power.
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That's not really what the issue is when people mention LibreWolf depends on Firefox. Its code will always be there, sure - but an abandoned browser is a soon-to-be-dead browser. Something as complex as Firefox needs constant updates to its security and engine, at a minimum, to keep it safe and functional. That's all work that Mozilla does for LibreWolf, and it's a significant enough burden that arguably no current fork of Firefox would be able to bear it. It's apparently a burden even Microsoft wasn't willing to bear anymore.
Oh damn, that sucks
It's just a patch on top of Firefox.