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  • DynamoSunshirtSandals@possumpat.io
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    10 months ago

    If Mozilla really starts to go downhill, what are the chances we get a Linux kernel-style community fork that we can rely on instead? Curious why that hasn’t happened before – perhaps because Mozilla has always toed the line of not-quite-awful enough?

    I just hope we can keep an alternative browser engine alive. Would be nice if some rich person would just set up a funding model that can pay a few devs to keep it going indefinitely without ads or spyware.

    • FarraigePlaisteaċ@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      It’s one thing to tweak a browser that comes in kit form from Mozilla’s code. It’s another thing altogether to continue maintaining it if Firefox ever dies. I don’t know if any of these clones have the kind of teams needed to do all the work Mozilla have done for them.

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      10 months ago

      Check out AlternativeTo

      I’ve been thinking of different browsers as well, but not sure which. Probably LibreWolf.

      Def not Chrome or Safari though.