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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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But at least forking is still an option. The instant they make any moves that inhibit forking or privacy on forks, Firefox will be completely dead. For now, it’s just gangrenous.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Good luck with even maintaining that fork up to date , with security threats and web standards changing so quickly.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Chromium manages (obsfucated binary blobs from google still being included aside)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Chromium is developed by Google. It's not some grassroots fork with user interests in mind...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

The thing is, people willing to maintain a fork could contribute to Firefox today, and reduce the development cost, reduce the need for income.

Sure, some people will be more willing to contribute, if it's a pure grassroots effort, or if they're left without a browser otherwise, but to just assume that a fork will fix it, that's wishful thinking.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wish that most forks wouldn't be even worse. Pale Moon, the most interesting one, is a gang of patent trolls.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Pale Moon feels like it forked during the peak of Windows Vista, and hasn't updated its UI, or extension library since.

LibreWolf, Mullvad Browser, and Waterfox feel the most up to date, while being FOSS.