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PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I switched to LibreWolf when the privacy policy fiasco happened a while ago. It’s funny how every few weeks Mozilla manages to demonstrate why I won’t switch back.

  The new CEO has also already lost me with this gem:

  He says he could begin to block ad blockers in Firefox and estimates that’d bring in another $150 million, but he doesn’t want to do that. It feels off-mission.

  Even taking the statement at face value, it’s unacceptable for it to just “feel off-mission”. It should be a clear “no, never” instead of some wishy-washy answer.

  But reading between the lines, such a statement is not just an off-the-cuff remark, but at best a threat to their users, and at worst a way to gauge the blowback of such a decision. They must have already taken it seriously enough to come up with the $150 million.

  If I had to put up a number, I’d guess there’s a 25+% chance that Firefox will drop Manifest V2 in the next few years.

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  • PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Hearing this genuinely disgusts me

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s cool while it lasts. I don’t have a ton of faith in a project that’s just one guy’s personal crusade to create a non-shit browser, though.

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  • Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “Cool while it lasts” is still better than “terrible now and forever”. Hopefully Waterfox survives long enough for Ladybird to get off the ground.

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• Jhex@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I did for my phone but can’t get Teams to share screen on my desktop (Linux desktop) while Chromium can… once I have that one figured out, I will switch to Waterfox on the desktop as well

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