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JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

We need a truly FOSS browser that developed and maintained by the community. Librewolf isn’t it unless it fully forks away from Mozilla. We need a new engine and we just don’t have one yet.

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negativenull@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Ladybird Browser is coming, but could be a couple years still

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- grue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  BSD licensed
  
  Ew. It ought to be AGPLv3.
  
  (I almost just said “copyleft,” but as Chromium proves, even LGPL is insufficient protection from corporate usurpation.)
  
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  - tomenzgg@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Truly; it’s shocking how much people are still clinging to permissive licensing in the middle of everything going on.
    
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- _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Backed by Shopify, huh? Bet they wish that wasn’t the case, given recent events.
  
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- dan@upvote.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The web platform is huge… It’s going to take a long time to reach parity with other browsers.
  
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olympicyes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Sounds like a job for JoMiran! Rooting for you!

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cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I agree. I’d even be willing to regularly donate to a foundation that would have this aim as their goal and have their acts matching their promises.

Although, not necessarily a new engine. Going from scratch is a good way to remake a lot of mistakes, while reusing old code is a good way to keep old debt. That’s not a decision I would like to have to take.

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sunbeam60@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Why a new engine, Firefox is open source?!

Fork Firefox.

But good luck funding a team to keep up with commercial companies’ pace. It needs funding.

If Mozilla made a way to donate in a way that I KNEW it would go towards the maintenance of the browser, and not another crappy thing they’re trying to be profitable, I’d donate in a second. I spend about £30/month on OSS donations and I’d happily add £5/month to Mozilla if I trusted them not to misspend it.

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- JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  But good luck funding a team to keep up with commercial companies’ pace.
  
  You answered the question yourself. The worry is that without a hard fork that is fully maintained we’ll continue to have a dependence on Mozilla. It doesn’t need to be a new engine, but it does need to be an independent one.
  
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