it's time to fork #Firefox and turn it into a cooperative-owned project.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/mozilla-lays-off-60-people-wants-to-build-ai-into-firefox/

cooperative membership is the element missing from FLOSS.

fuck the non-profit's faux neutrality when in truth it's just a broke doppelganger of the top-down structure of the corporatist kleptocracy.

make the project a cooperative where members --users and developers-- get to vote on the future of the project with their paid memberships and contributed labor.

Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox

Memo details layoffs, “strategic corrections,” and a desire for “trustworthy” AI.

Ars Technica

@blogdiva Would IceCat be viable at all as some kind of base? It's basically Firefox ESR just with Mozilla and FireFox branding removed/changed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_IceCat

https://jessie.nabein.me/blog/consider-using-gnu-icecat-instead-of-firefox.html

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/icecat

GNU IceCat - Wikipedia

@jessienab Librewolf would be the de facto model to follow. it's degoogled AND stripped most of Mozilla's commercialized garbage.