Google forcing Firefox to do such a move sounds very anti-competitive. I don’t know if that would ever happen.
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EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 month ago
I cannot really be happy about being on Librewolf, because I am very afraid Firefox might eventually ditch MV2 as well. Mozilla is dependent on Google and is known for questionable choices, so…
jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
endofline@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
How do they force them? Just curious so asking
Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Google pays Firefox hundreds of millions of dollars a year to be their default search engine. In 2021, this accounted for 83% of Mozilla’s revenue.
SpaceCadet@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Google bankrolls Firefox basically.
hitmyspot@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Would there likely be a fork at that point for those that wish to continue?
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 month ago
This would be the same problem as in Chromium - you theoretically can, but in practice maintaining it with zero support from the original company would get increasingly hard.
independantiste@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Firefox supports MV3, with some tweaks such as the WebRequest limitations added by Google’s MV3 being removed from the Firefox implementation. I don’t think they will remove it