I want my browser to be nothing more than a browser!
They are trying to alienate their user base, and they will end be succeeding!
I hope another non-profit will emerge and continue the development of a forked Firefox!
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2021
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I hope another non-profit will emerge and continue the development of a forked Firefox!
This already exists, use PaleMoon.
PaleMoon is really old, slow Firefox code with poor add-on compatibility. I personally don't think anything Mozilla is doing with Firefox bad enough to make that compromise, but YMMV. Maybe something more focused in scope and more tightly bound to upstream Firefox like LibreWolf is a solution?
I guess so.
I might switch if:
- it is up to date with security patches
- has multiprocessing capabilities
- uses the new firefox rendering engine
- is compatible with firefox addons as I heavily rely on them for automating many tasks
- can install ublock origin
???
This is the company we are expected to support so Google doesn't have a monopoly over the web? Lol, if so Google can have it.
I disagree. Look, Mozilla obviously isn't perfect, but it's worlds ahead of Google, which actively participates in US espionage and imperialism, meanwhile Mozilla is showing non-personalized ads.
They also layed off most people doing good work in the middle of a pandemic, actively removed features from their browser, supported Google on antitrust because no one else pays them and are wasting time with stupid shit like ",unfck the internet". I'd say let Google have it, if they pull a Microsoft at least than we can motivate people to make content for gemini.
I still don't see Mozilla as being blatantly evil and imperialist as the big four tech companies.
Use Palemoon. It's Firefox before it went downhill and is a community project.
how many ads do we have to click to pay Mitchell Baker’s salary?
By 2020 her salary had risen to over $3 million, while in the same year the Mozilla Corporation had to lay off approximately 250 employees due to shrinking revenues. Baker blamed this on the Coronavirus pandemic
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker
It’s hard to believe the browser is endangered because they only have 500M a year from putting Google front and center. Is this a move to disentangle from the paid search business or to augment it?
if will become the reason mozzilla dies... just wtf