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20 points

I’m worried about the direction of Mozilla, though. We need another :'(

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7 points

I won’t be surprised at all. They bought an advertising network company and most of their user-tracking always was opt-out and “hidden” in about:config and this won’t change now.

They also released this pamphlet against an ad-free internet, so instead of being less intrusive with their spam and user tracking, this will become more and more annoying and complex to circumvent.

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6 points

I installed ZenBrowser and it’s pretty good. It’s pretty, it works

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4 points

It’s just reskinned Firefox though.

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13 points

LibreWolf for desktop, Mull for Android.

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14 points

Keep in mind both LibreWolf and Mull are very slow because LibreWolf disabled WebGL, enabling higher privacy features, and Mull disabled JIT, a massive performance hit.

This is for people who don’t know then blaming Firefox being slow, LibreWolf and Mull are slower version of Firefox, just that.

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9 points

Aren’t those Firefox with some patches?

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4 points

Well yes, but it’s the patches that make them special. Every Firefox fork that disables Mozilla PPA by default is another browser that cuts into Mozilla’s attempt to resell private data to advertisers while marketing it as private (which is, I kid you not, a reason they say they needed it enabled by default).

And considering Firefox itself is still open source, it’s a completely valid browser to base a fork off of. Especially when the only serviceable alternative is Chrome right now.

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Ladybird is slowly being worked on but I doubt we’ll see people daily driving it for a few years yet.

I wouldn’t worry too much about Mozilla when it comes to Firefox at least. As long as they keep up with the backend then forks can clean the crud off.

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4 points

Ladybird needs to support openness & stop using MS GitHub & Discord as their only means of communication/collaboration.

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I wonder how NEW open source project are still hosted on MS GitHub. I mean, yes, legacy projects hosted there are fine (but should work on leaving Microsoft behind) but new projects? Someone using MS GitHub doesn’t really understand the open source culture. Same with Discord (which is neither a support platform, nor a bugtracker, nor a help articles resource).

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