Firefox Cannot Be Trusted at the Hands of Today’s Mozilla Management
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Re: Firefox Cannot Be Trusted at the Hands of Today’s Mozilla Management
#2We maintain an add-on for our customers. For a long time Firefox was where we did our development, and released first. Their process was quick & easy, and a lot less confusing to navigate than Chrome/Edge.
Something on their end changed for which add-ons would require manual review. So a minor update (bug fixes, and a UI addition) has been in queue for review since June 22nd. We went from waiting hours to 6+ weeks at this point. There's plenty of frustrated people in their forums, but no real answers.
Re: Firefox Cannot Be Trusted at the Hands of Today’s Mozilla Management
#3In the near future Firefox is just another Brave, Opera whatsoever. I am just curious how long some poor souls work their heart out in the engine room until the management inevitably forces the switch to chromium.
Re: Firefox Cannot Be Trusted at the Hands of Today’s Mozilla Management
#4Can Firefox be forked? It's buildable on various OSes, is it legally possible to pick up the codebase and keep working on it in the spirit of original Mozilla?
Re: Firefox Cannot Be Trusted at the Hands of Today’s Mozilla Management
#5In the near future Firefox is just another Brave, Opera whatsoever. I am just curious how long some poor souls work their heart out in the engine room until the management inevitably forces the switch to chromium.
According to statcounter.com, Firefox is already on the level of Edge and Samsung Internet, with 3.45% market share globally. US: even slightly lower at 3.44%, down from 4.3% a year ago. Europe is still higher, Germany at 12%, France at 7%, but also falling rapidly.
The future is now.
Re: Firefox Cannot Be Trusted at the Hands of Today’s Mozilla Management
#6Can Firefox be forked? It's buildable on various OSes, is it legally possible to pick up the codebase and keep working on it in the spirit of original Mozilla?
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#7Can Firefox be forked? It's buildable on various OSes, is it legally possible to pick up the codebase and keep working on it in the spirit of original Mozilla?
Yes, but the doe tho..
99% of the time, it's not a technical problem.
Re: Firefox Cannot Be Trusted at the Hands of Today’s Mozilla Management
#8Can Firefox be forked? It's buildable on various OSes, is it legally possible to pick up the codebase and keep working on it in the spirit of original Mozilla?
There are various Firefox forks already (the ones I'm aware of are for old OSes) but there aren't enough people to sustain them.
Re: Firefox Cannot Be Trusted at the Hands of Today’s Mozilla Management
#9Can Firefox be forked? It's buildable on various OSes, is it legally possible to pick up the codebase and keep working on it in the spirit of original Mozilla?
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Re: Firefox Cannot Be Trusted at the Hands of Today’s Mozilla Management
#10In the near future Firefox is just another Brave, Opera whatsoever. I am just curious how long some poor souls work their heart out in the engine room until the management inevitably forces the switch to chromium.
Agreed. However, as you can tell from the downvotes, that will alienate a lot of people who believe that by using a Chromium fork, you're somehow giving over control of the web to Google. Which is ridiculous, as Google has lost control of the Chromium project due to Brave and Edge butting their ugly heads in. It's now the Linux kernel of web browsers. Prove me wrong.