What is the next best alternative to throw support behind? I did a very shallow search and the forks of Firefox I found don't appear to be actively maintained.
Is Firefox Firefucked?
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#22I'm concerned, and I am glad people keep writing about this. But the final bit in this post is really where I'm at: I have no idea where to go from here. Currently on mobile I use Orion--it's the only mobile browser I've found where setting up AdBlocking is reasonably easy. Maybe I'll try it on Desktop. But this doesn't really address the issue of there being only one rendering engine out there because it uses WebKit…
are you on android or iOS?
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#23Firefox's main problem is Firefox users. Seriously, there's nothing but griping about it but it's pretty much the only browser holding back the rendering engine monopoly (intentionally excluding WebKit).
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#24Firefox's main problem is Firefox users. Seriously, there's nothing but griping about it but it's pretty much the only browser holding back the rendering engine monopoly (intentionally excluding WebKit).
The community today is the result of 10+ years of disappointment. Some are long enough following Firefox to remember what has been lost, and some have grown and cultivated their grudges over a long time. And people know, there will never be a golden age of Mozilla again, from this point on it's just survival. For many, it's probably just a relationship of necessary evil they have to swallow.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Okay... are you saying there are no problems with Firefox? And if not, are how do you propose that users get these problems fixed without talking about them?
It's the vitriol, not the criticism.
Yeah. I see this in every thread. Business types that aren't used to how normal human beings communicate see the human firefox users writing and they can never address the points. Instead they always get hung up on the tone and debate over the irrelevant tone becomes the primary/top thread in HN FF posts.
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#27I had to stop using firefox because it just wouldn't display youtube videos. disabling adblocking, hardware acceleration, updates, etc. etc. didn't help at all
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#28I just don’t understand the purpose of the Mozilla foundation any more. They’re a non profit? But seem to do the bidding of big tech?
I have no sense of what they stand for
That plus seeming to chase every hype wave (Crypto, now AI) I just don’t get why I should care about them.
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#29It's open source, use a fork if you don't like the company.
If you think the product is good keep using it - why on earth would you give up one of your most important pieces of software on your machine because you don't like the company that runs the main repo?
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#30A problem is no one is testing their websites in Firefox, so often I encounter websites that don't work, but work perfectly fine in Vanadium.
often?