Really? This is what does it for you?
tlou3please@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think this tips it over the edge for me to switch to Firefox
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I prefer waterfox. Hard to trust Mozilla Corpos.
ours@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As long as it’s not Chromium, I’m happy people aren’t just handing over the keys to the Internet to Google.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Yeah, Waterfox is just another browser built on top of the Mozilla’s GECKO engine. But without all the AI dickriding.
ours@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How terrible to offer client-side translation or webpage description for differently abled people!
croaker@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I haven’t seen anything to signal Mozilla is untrustworthy other than from that one right wing guy with a chip on his shoulder.
TheFrirish@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
Most of the revenue of Mozilla Corporation comes from Google (81% in 2022[2]) in exchange of making it the default search engine in Firefox.
Source: wikipedia
Other issues I have with Firefox is the telemetry bits, the way they handle some of their employees (laying one guy off because he has cancer), the lack of meaningful updates and features in the last decade, CEO granting herself a nice pay rise after doing well nothing really. The list goes on and on honestly.
Don’t get me wrong, you should still use Firefox or a Firefox derived browser if you care about a free internet. I myself use firefox (although I just switched to Zen browser on my PC which is based on Firefox). However we shouldn’t be blind ourselves just because we hate anything google based and/or closed sourced. Firefox is still back by a for profit company which is, as I quoted earlier, backed at least by 80% by google.
For the positive side now it seems that in the last 2-3 months firefox has been pumping out meaningful updates (even on mobile). Things seem to be taking a positive turn recently and I’m actually a bit excited to see where firefox is going to go from here.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
The Mozilla Corporation is a for profit entity owned by the Mozilla Foundation, which lets them claim to be a nonprofit, which is a sketchy looking way to set up and promote your business if nothing else. They get most of their money from Google and they’ve been riding AI like all the other unethical companies.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I miss Mozilla the product.
Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I unironically miss Netscape Communicator. Yes most of that went into Firefox but not all and I really miss the frame layout.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I used the shit out of their WYSIWYG HTML editor when I was an up and coming little script kiddie.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I hope so! It’s a wonderful side of the Internet to be on