So, I'm staying with #Firefox, even though their CEO is tone-deaf and clumsy and destroying #Mozilla's reputation because today I had to remove 6 extensions in #Vivaldi (my sometimes alternate
So, I'm staying with #Firefox, even though their CEO is tone-deaf and clumsy and destroying #Mozilla's reputation because today I had to remove 6 extensions in #Vivaldi (my sometimes alternate
So, I'm staying with #Firefox, even though their CEO is tone-deaf and clumsy and destroying #Mozilla's reputation because today I had to remove 6 extensions in #Vivaldi (my sometimes alternate browser), several of which were security-related, because of Google's changes. I miss them. I want them back.
Bottom line. I definitely feel more secure using Firefox than a Chrome-based browser, and I won't let my disappointment with Mozilla kill off the only alternative to Google. I will continue using Firefox.
As far as using a fork of Firefox, if Firefox doesn't live on, neither will these forks.
Why? The other teams have the source code, they can just continue extending it or just maintaining it.
And having just switched from Firefox to LibreWolf yesterday, it took all of 20 minutes to do. It's not like you'll be hung out to dry without the Internet if you are correct. You would just switch to another browser again.
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I don't think developing a web browser to keep it up to date with new web technologies and new security requirement is just "maintenance". LibreWolf or any other Firefox fork don't have the ressources do that, that's the problem.
You need at least a mid size company that pays top developers continuously for years, and believe in open source, open web and privacy at the same time, we don't have a lot of those.
If Mozilla Corporations and its 700 employees goes down, I don't think we'll have another one like this. We may get new actors due to governments wanting to break Google's monopoly, but I doubt they would take the same open stance as Mozilla. Other fantasies include some philanthropist billionaire or the EU deciding to create an open software foundation to finance the open web.
Internet standards are pretty stable and mature at this point, and they can always port over security fixes.
I wouldn't imagine it would be that difficult maintaining the existing code base.
Obviously I'm not saying it's super easy, but once the product is mature you don't need a huge staff for it, at least not in the short term.
Having said that, my point was just to alleviate the fears of the OP, who didn't want to move away from Firefox because they were afraid that what they moved to would die if Firefox does. My point was just to say they would be a long lag time before that would happen.
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You think the librewolf team is up to doing feature development and that they'll get a seat at the standards table? Because they're not doing that now, feature development is way more work, and if Mozilla goes the way of the dodo who knows if anyone else gets a seat at the standards table. The only other members are megacorps that don't any incentive to let in new groups and Mozilla is only there because of history
Nobody follows the actual web standards anyway. Everybody just follows Google because all the web devs can't be bothered to do anything but Chrome compatibility, and Google can't be bothered with updating the actual codified standards before pushing out new shit.
No. They may have the source code, but they don't have the human resources to work on fixing security problems, major bugs or maintain it to keep following internet standards. They're just a small team working on anonymizing it.
Why are you licensing your comments?