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Mozilla to expand focus on advertising - "We know that not everyone in our community will embrace our entrance into this market" (blog.mozilla.org)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. Just set it up on one of my computers. I’ll be doing the rest as time allows. There’s a lot I love about it already, familiar but with better defaults, and including search engines like SearXNG. I hope enough of us can switch and send a message to Mozilla, though that feels very unlikely to stop the enshittification.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

oh they're full on corpo now it sounds like, which is too bad. They should have gone the proton route and go full non-profit org controlled, but here we are.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 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.