Comment on Google spent $26 billion to hide this phone setting from you
raptir@lemdro.id 1 year agoI hope not. Not only do I not want to see Google annihilate Firefox but I also don’t want to see the further “appification” of every website. It’s ridiculous that I need to install an app to pay for parking when I’m visiting a city and will only use the app once. It’s not even Bluetooth enabled so it’s not like it can be used offline if you don’t have a connection.
The fact that Firefox is open source gives me some hope that the community could take the reins and continue development if Mozilla did run into financial trouble.
That is horrible but it need not be. Parking paying apps could be federated: you pick the app you like and can pay anywhere*.
Personally I have never used a parking app because they are proprietary and thankfully I live in country where many still uses coins.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There’s already some forks of Firefox.
raptir@lemdro.id 1 year ago
Aren’t they realistically more “patches” than forks? They continue to track the Firefox codebase as it updates.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah you could be right, I’m not sure about the specifics, just that there’s other versions of it.
raptir@lemdro.id 1 year ago
LibreWolf for example removes the telemetry but is ultimately still updating to each new Firefox version. In the event of Mozilla going under, some project would need to pick up the maintenance of the actual browser core that the “forks” are pulling updates from.