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Now they are trying to stuff even more slowness inducing ads in the new tab - that means - exactly the moment you wan to to something ELSE.
That's the problem - when you open a tab, you don't really want to see the ads. When you search on Google, you might want to see the ads.
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Freemium wouldn't work. There will be unofficial builds available with this kind of stuff removed available for free within hours of the official release. They could charge for services such as sync but again that is going to be difficult Chrome does it for free. I think Mozilla need to seriously look at how they are spending their money as it seems to be pretty insane some of their outgoings. I know they are trying…
> Freemium wouldn't work. There will be unofficial builds available with this kind of stuff removed available for free within hours of the official release. But how is "Firefox with ads" going to work then? Firefox is still open source after all. Someone will remove the bit of code enabling ads, gives it a fancy new name and eventually a critical mass will switch to this browser.
"Firefox with ads" lets one turn off the ads. The control offered is the same when you're allowed to download a fork. I don't see why a fork would hurt Fx so much if it just turns a feature off by default -- a feature that Firefox lets you turn off anyway.