Cool stuff, now of Firefox didn’t switch back to Google every major update or so, that would be great… because I actually do have Ecosia selected and need to switch back to it every once in a while because hey why not
I’ve never had my search engine change from an update, and I use it on Linux, Android, and macOS. I set mine to DDG years ago and it has never changed.
Of all the things I care about in a search engine, “social impact” has got to be near the bottom.
That they’re touting this as the selling point tells me they’re trying to distract from the real motive.
This selling point is not important to you because you’re not part of Mozilla’s target market. Mozilla already has the 2% of the internet that hangs out on Lemmy. They’re pursuing some of the remaining 98%.
[citation needed]
After abandoning the fediverse.
Lots of people have been saying they should focus more on developing Firefox rather than doing other things like partnering with Mullvad or whatever. There are already quite a few other fediverse instances.
Unless they make Ecosia the default search engine in Firefox, this is worthless.
This is preparation for that in case google loses its appeal and is forbidden to pay Firefox to be the default.
Am I wrong for hoping that happens?
Idk, on one hand I get what you mean. On the other hand, Firefox going away or being monetized in more aggressive ways will not be a good thing.
Honestly, I think I would prefer the lawsuit never happened and Google kept paying Firefox. Now, if Google loses, Firefox will likely head for enshitification. And if google wins, it sets terrible precedent :(
Now, if Google loses, Firefox will likely head of enshitification.
The whole thing is FOSS. if the company goes over the community can still maintain it if they wish to
No, keeping up with new web standards, security, etc. is a full time job. It’s not something volunteers can keep up with. At that point, it may be better to just give up and build on top of Chromium.
In addition, without enough market share, websites will not test, let alone optimize for your browser. This is already causing issues for Firefox. Smaller browser engines stand no chance.
And if Firefox changes to a chromium browser, I’m out. I’m here to support independent browser engines, beyond that, I don’t care much about Mozilla.
Good luck. If Firefox changes to Blink, that’s it. Gecko won’t last long without the Mozilla Foundation footing the development bill. You get WebKit and Blink, nothing else.
“OMG this is crazy but in light of the looming Google antitrust stuff did y’all realize there are other browsers out there??”
realize there are other browsers out there?
You meant search engines?
Ya there’s only 2 types of browsers :( chromium and Firefox based. There’s a total monopoly on that
Safari (webkit) and there are two currently trying to get into existence
What other two are there?
There are several browsers, but the hard part being discussed here is the browser engine. The current promising up and comers are LibWeb for Ladybird and Servo which is now under management of the Linux Foundation; super exciting.
But as far as just browsers, I recommend the Firefox fork, zen browser. The interface is fantastic.
Well, Safari (Webkit) too but nobody likes that one.
Btw, Google’s Blink is based on Webkit which is based on KDE’s KHTML. Else, there is Gecko (Firefox) and was Trident (MS Internet Explorer). Oh, and QtWebkit but it’s slow in JS.
GNOME Web (formerly known as Epiphany) also uses the Safari WebKit.
