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Why's everyone freaking out about Firefox Terms of Service? Isn't it Open Source?
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this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2025
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We're all keyboard warriors with opinions.
I'll get downvoted to hell for this, but I honestly feel like right now it is a nothingburger.
Will I continue to keep an eye on the things they do? Yes. Does their CEOs work history bother me? Yes. Will I keep using it and just keep tabs on settings and extensions? Yes.
Maybe. Not everyone is just going to ignore this, though.
I waffle between Firefox and other browsers, depending on how tolerant I'm feeling. Not using Firefox is more work. Sometimes I'll spend a week or two with Firefox up, but normally, I'm in Luakit.But when I hit that web site that just doesn't work with WebKit, I hop over to FF for it. Now, with this, I'll probably start jumping to Nyxt which - while also WebKit - seems for some reason to work with more sites. Nyxt is faster, too; luakit is really slow and has a persistent scrolling bug that drives me nuts. But Nyxt hard-hangs multiple times during each hour of its, requiring a kill -9 and restart, so ... Luakit.
Like I said. It's harder to not use Firefox. But this change in policy is enough to make me change my habits and use something else when I have issues with Luakit. Or surf. Or vimb. Or whatever I'm fancying this month. Problem is, they're mostly WebKit, and while in grateful for it, it struggles with many web sites - and especially the JS heavy ones.
Hmm, I'll check these out, thanks!
They're all very niche. Keyboard driven. A fair number of issues; they're all built on WebKit, with all of the compatability issues that comes with.
I mean, it doesn't hurt. But it's like picking up vim: there's a learning curve. They're not for everyone, just fair warning.
Oh haha so this won't work for...well, work.
I agree if it gets bad they will just resurrect Icewessle once again.
Librewolf is basically that. It's pretty good ngl. I don't have to spend a half hour reconfiguring Firefox like I do in new setups.
Yeah unfortunately it's not in the debian Repo and I don't like adding in 3rd party repos if I can help it but thanks for the info in case I get desperate
Its available on flathub, thats arguably better than any repos
Yeah for my browser my preference is to have it as a local package. But good to know