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[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 74 points 10 months ago

Not everyone?

Does anyone?

Good thing we can fork, I guess, but it's kinda sad to watch a previously good org die

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 59 points 10 months ago

Fork, blah, blah, blah.

When one of these forks doesn't depend on Mozilla to do all the heavy lifting of security updates and compatibility fixes, then maybe we can talk seriously about forks. But no fork does fuck-all towards the hard part of maintaining a web browser engine. So forks mean nothing.

[-] variants@possumpat.io 9 points 10 months ago
[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago

Well, if users don't the source of the actual work, then none of the forks survive. I don't know what people think are going to happen.

Shitting on Mozilla seems to be a competitor sport around here sometimes, and it's fucking self-defeating. In 5 years, there will only be the Chromium engine, and then Google will shut down the opensource side like they pretty much did with Android. And then we're truly fucked.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 21 points 10 months ago

I've been using librewolf over the last week. Honestly.... It's a drop in replacement for me

[-] picnicolas@slrpnk.net 10 points 10 months ago

Does it support containers and sync settings between installs on multiple systems? If so I’m in without hesitation.

[-] muhyb@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago

It's basically hardened Firefox, you can do all the same things here too. Alas using it with an account kind of defeats the purpose. However you can use your account once to sync everything.

[-] GetOffMyLan@programming.dev 8 points 10 months ago

The problem with those sorts of forks is they still require moz to do most of the heavy lifting.

If Firefox stopped being developed they'd all pretty much freeze in place.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 10 months ago

I agree to a point, I think some people would pick up the development. Idk if it'd be librewolf or if someone would fork off that, but if Firefox completely shit the bed I think someone would pick up the mantle a bit. We wouldn't have nearly the release cadence of firefox though.

[-] Devorlon@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago

Does anyone?

I don't want to see Mozilla shutdown because Google no longer pays them, or due to the loss of another funding source.

Diversifying their income sources is a good thing.

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