cm0002Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive
atro_city"We need the devil to stay alive ššš"
Cry me a river. Maybe you don't deserve to live if evil sustains you.
May these fucks should find a more honest "business model" that doesn't rely on handouts from a monopolist like, who knows, maybe try and talk to governments to be their default browser and be paid for support? Or refocus your efforts and trim the fat from the top that's sucking millions out of the org for firing people and making bad decisions? Or let your users donate money directly to firefox development instead of going "we'll accept your money, but it might go into anything but firefox"? Or a bunch of other things that don't mean keeping the biggest invader of privacy alive just so that you can survive?
Ex NummisSwitched to Librewolf a few months ago, no regrets.
aleqIsnāt librewolf building on the latest versions of firefox or gecko or something? So if firefox does, so does librewolf?
Itās a fork, so they can choose what to incorporate from Mozilla or not. If they go ābadā at anytime Iāll just switch again.
The point is that librewolf is downstream of Firefox. They are not equipped to maintain an entire browser.
Yep, thatās the problem with browsers. They cost so much to maintain that their primary contributors are earning money through other means to keep the projects going. Gecko and Chromium are open-source, sure, but even then almost all of the non-corporste browser projects are just forks of one or the other.
Other than Safari, which is closed source and only on Appleās walled garden, Ladybird is the only non-Chromium, non-Gecko browser I can think of, and it needs a LOT of work.