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Thunderbird "won't be adopting the firefox terms of use" (mastodon.online)

submitted 3 days ago by Cris_Color@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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[-] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I understand why people are so mad at Firefox/mozilla but honestly? I just don’t know of any viable alternative right now. Chrome, Safari, edge, etc are all categorically worse offerings because of their parent companies/policies.

Can someone please give me a non-chromium, Mobile and browser desktop suggestion? Firefox has so many QoL things I depend on. I need something that can use major extensions and such.

Edit: iOS is the real issue here for me

[-] pory@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Any downstream fork of Firefox. All the good of Firefox and Gecko (including addons), none of the Mozilla corporation. The most popular ones seem to be Waterfox and Floorp (for "most users") and LibreWolf for privacy diehards.

You can copy your Firefox profile folder directly into a fork's profile folder and have everything exactly as you left it (though doing this to Librewolf will likely overwrite some of Librewolf's privacy-first default settings like purging history every time the browser closes)

On iOS you are already stuck with every browser being a Safari+Webkit skin. Even Chrome "Isn't chromium" on iphones. But mobile iOS "Firefox" can still use Mozilla (or self-hosted) sync to desktop Waterfox (etc).

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

The only alternative is the Konqueror browser (KDE) for the Linux user, it has it's own KHTML engine by KDE (Grandfather of WebKit and Blink)

[-] VerseAndVermin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I am trying Floorp as of yesterday. I like Zen Browser, but their github contributers list makes it look like it's mostly the effort of one person and that always gives me pause until somethings been around a while. Floorp seemed more spread out so I decided to try it despite its silly name.

I'm interested in how ladybird shapes up.

Worth noting that you may have DRM issues on some forks with video content. I don't think you will on Linux, and someone clear this if you can, but I think the alternate used can't do 4k video? I'm not a big web media consumer so idk. Has something to do with Widevine I think.

[-] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago

I am also rooting for ladybird but yeah sadly not ready yet

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[-] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Great! I'm very happy with Thunderbird and with all this Mozilla nonsense i was worry that I had to leave it.

[-] Far@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

Based.

[-] Palladiumasteroid@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago

Good to know that they'll be training AI on its users only on their browser. What a relief /s

Thunderbird's been isolated and isolated itself from wider Mozilla from sometime, so this doesn't surprise me. It belongs to a different subsidiary and everyday it becomes more separated from other Mozilla products. It's just there.