LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom
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LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom
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Re: LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom
#2Why are there not more successful forks of Firefox? While it's still my browser of choice, I think it's safe to say there are a significant number of developers who are not happy with the leadership of Mozilla. What's preventing other forks from taking off?
Re: LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom
#3Why are there not more successful forks of Firefox? While it's still my browser of choice, I think it's safe to say there are a significant number of developers who are not happy with the leadership of Mozilla. What's preventing other forks from taking off?
Money.
Re: LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom
#4Genuine questions. Aren't such forks harming the actual Firefox developers by decreasing the Firefox user base? Doesn't it help the Google monopoly on the web?
Re: LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom
#5Why are there not more successful forks of Firefox? While it's still my browser of choice, I think it's safe to say there are a significant number of developers who are not happy with the leadership of Mozilla. What's preventing other forks from taking off?
even GNU has really hard time keeping up their IceCat releases
Re: LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom
#6Genuine questions. Aren't such forks harming the actual Firefox developers by decreasing the Firefox user base? Doesn't it help the Google monopoly on the web?
If a fork like this would decrease ff's user base, Mozilla can change ff or have their lunch eaten by said fork. Hard to see a down side.
Re: LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom
#7How does this compare with IceCat and Fennic?
Re: LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom
#8It might make more sense to have no ads and for telemetry to be opt in. I actually want FF having my telemetric data as far as it is used for improving the product only. Ready to pay if they were into it.
Re: LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom
#9Why are there not more successful forks of Firefox? While it's still my browser of choice, I think it's safe to say there are a significant number of developers who are not happy with the leadership of Mozilla. What's preventing other forks from taking off?
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Re: LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom
#10Genuine questions. Aren't such forks harming the actual Firefox developers by decreasing the Firefox user base? Doesn't it help the Google monopoly on the web?
I'd say if there's any harm, it would rather be related to money, as in Mozilla has less to bargain for their deals with their sponsors.
However, seeing how these forks are just "cosmetic", they still use the same rendering engine, which doesn't increase Google's relative user base. As far as this monopoly is concerned, all these forks are still Firefox.