Do you worry about Firefox policy change?
Is there a new development (like yet another ToS update, etc.) since March?
Just an fyi, if Firefox is shut down then so is Librewolf and literally every other fork. People don’t seem to understand this…
Then it’s KHTML then I guess. Written from the ground up, so good Apple used it to create WebKit. Or Ladybird when it gets done. Or the several forks could pool their resources into a foundation to keep developing the core of their products. Or another institution adopts the project (Linux Foundation, etc.).
What you don’t understand is that Mozilla doesn’t hold us in captivity and there are zero reasons to bend to their bullshit. If they die, they die.
Bruh, you’re being extremely optimistic that Mozilla going down won’t kill forks. Take librewolf for example. It’s like 1 dev or something. No way that dude is gonna maintain security fixes and stuff on his own. That takes an entire full-time paid dev team. Ladybird I’ve heard about for ages, however who the hell knows when/if that would be viable and maintained on its own. Could difference projects pool resources and maintain it together? Yea, sure it could. Is that guaranteed or likely to happen any time soon? Fuck no.
Bottom line is Mozilla going bye bye would almost guarantee the deaths of all forks. To think otherwise is naive.
If they die, they die.
Or I could quote the whole of my previous comment. Pretend it’s an English reading comprehension exam and you have to determine the author’s arguments.
@FeelzGoodMan420 yes that is 100% true
Yep, I quit using Firefox.
You fuck with me? I drop you like a bad habit. That’s just a very simple standing rule that I have abided by for a very long time.
And it’s frustrating, but it works and I’ll keep dropping every single fucking company that wants to fuck with me for the rest of time.
I would rather Firefox come out and be like, look, we need you to give us two dollars a year to use our fucking browser than for them to try to sneakily, secretly extract money from the background from my web searches.
That goes double for when this money extraction process does not actually improve the product but makes it measurably worse.
What change? The telemetry data they’re collecting to improve the browser?
What policy change? I don’t speak vague.
Ditched FF in favor of Librewolf a while back. Happy with the results and my control over my own privacy, no reason to go back.
