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Is It Worth Killing Mozilla to Shave Off Less Than 1% From Google’s Market Share? - Open Web Advocacy
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Can't be sure of course. But there are at least some forks of FF that devs of FF could keep doing work on if Mozilla just stopped FF. I have been daily driving Zen-browser for at least six or eight months. It is very good as far as FF forks go, and if folks that do the work for the core browser things that aren't UI/UX were to jump-in. It could be able to keep moving forward as far as standards and security updates are concerned.
The only major issue (aside from the above) would be setting up an extension "store" since Zen does just point to FF's "store." Which is an issue for basically all the Chromium-based forks that aren't Edge and Opera to my knowledge. I hate that those forks still lose things like uBO even if they still support it instead of the V3 stuff.
Those are very much not trivial things and are honestly what would kill all of FF and the forks if not able to happen. Funding would be the first thing needed for devs to keep going if their main income is from their work for Mozilla. It would be at least easier than completely starting from zero.
ff forks depend on mozilla's work. if mozilla dies, they die
also, again, making the browser is only part of mozilla's job
What I meant was that the could just start doing what they were already doing with the fork already having the same code under the hood. Kind of like how LibreOffice happened after the holders of OpenOffice pulled their shit. Obviously Mozilla is more than just FF. They just keep it from being directly donated to, which is at least some money they just seem to not want. I also know that pure donation-based funding is nowhere near what they lose Google's money. But it is very frustrating that basically all of their other services have options to donate or sub to them directly.
libreoffice has the document foundation behind it, which is basically a continuation of the oo.o team after oracle bought sun: https://www.libreoffice.org/about-us/libreoffice-timeline/
mozilla is already an independent foundation. i don't think the situations are comparable at all
Except for Pale Moon, but it's not exactly a great experience to use.
what do you mean? does pale moon develop its own browser engine?