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Safari is nowadays getting ~$15,000,000,000 per year with a Google search deal. Meanwhile Mozilla has been ignoring their core user base going as far as laying off development teams working on Firefox components in the name of cost saving while they try to diversify income to support the rest of Mozilla (which makes basically nothing) yet they've retain their own Google search deal with lower user share for At this p…
welp, it's been a slice, Firefox. I will never forget the excellent MDN docs and of course the gift of Rust. I will miss your little furry logo henceforth.
Is IceCat still a viable and maintained fork for Firefox that, at least I would hope, excludes changes like this?
Safari is the best browser there is right now, hands down.
Yeaaaah, no thank you. > while keeping your privacy in mind. Doesn't mean it's maintained with reasonable assurance. Who is even asking for these features? The majority of firefox users I know are very privacy conscious. Is a little address bar feature really going to attract more people to use firefox?
Yeaaaah, no thank you. > while keeping your privacy in mind. Doesn't mean it's maintained with reasonable assurance. Who is even asking for these features? The majority of firefox users I know are very privacy conscious. Is a little address bar feature really going to attract more people to use firefox?
Ads and privacy just do not belong and cannot be together. Why…
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Advertising is fundamentally malicious.
I believe that advertising could be used maliciously but I don't believe advertising is inherently malicious.
And that's not even touching on the entire surveillance infrastructure that has been constructed in the name of advertising, which we can similarly classify as malicious.
For revenue they should sell naming rights to their release versions like stadium naming rights. The name will also be in the executable "Firefox: vX.X TikTok"
Seems like a recipe for bad publicity when ever there is an issue with a specific version.