Also from Jamie Zawinski yesterday: Mozilla’s Original Sin
Some will tell you that Mozilla’s worst decision was to accept funding from Google, and that may have been the first domino, but I hold that implementing DRM is what doomed them, as it led to their culture of capitulation. It demonstrated that their decisions were the decisions of a company shipping products, not those of a non-profit devoted to preserving the open web.
Those are different things and are very much in conflict. They picked one. They picked the wrong one.
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Still the best browser to support, still the best hope of defending open web standards from Google. Call me when they implement the ads in an onerous way.
Just use a soft fork. The engine is unlikely to get compromised
Speaking of the engine, if Mozilla ever decides to stop developing gecko, it’s going to force the community to continue that work on their own. If that ever happens, it would have a big impact on all the forks too.
Why having DRM behind a “do you want to install DRM to play media” button is seen as a bad thing? Otherwise everyone would have to use chromium.
The problem is that toggle gets turned on easily. They could make it the user choice with a option to rip it out completely.
Best option though. Chromium browsers are all subject to google’s wrath, and there are plenty of Firefox forks to go around. If you don’t like vanilla Firefox, try Abrowser, available on Trisquel GNU/Linux, a fully libre GNU/Linux Distribution as well as from the Arch GNU/Linux User Repository.
Do Firefox forks support the same Firefox addon ecosystem, or do they have smaller selections/manual steps?
I couldn’t say as I can’t speak to every fork in existence, but I think most of them support all Firefox extensions. AFAIK LibreWolf does.
Generally yes
That website raped my eyes
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I wish the time he spend complaining was developing an alternative. But he rather support the Apple ecosystem.
He’s so petulant online with people that I can only imagine how awful it must be to have him as a boss.
Librewolf is a good option
I’m gonna keep using and recommending LibreWolf for the foreseeable future.
But I wonder what other alternative web engines do we have with both Chromium and Gecko being run by advertisers now?
I know Palemoon runs a fork of a really old version of a Gecko and I used it for a bit back when Firefox 58 broke most add-ons. But I’m a bit iffy of it’s security these days.
At the moment, we have Blink (Chrome), Gecko (Firefox), Webkit (Safari), Servo, Ladybird and Goanna (Pale Moon).
I wish Librewolf disabled DRM
Pretty sure they do? Unless you’re talking about a different DRM thing.
Maybe they mean compiled without it entirely instead of disabled by default, but still available?
Any opinions on Opera? I used it 1000 years ago. I liked it but then they started charging or something and switched to Firefox. Then Brave which was my favorite but is a problem I guess. I used Chrome for a short time until I learned it was Google crap. So now I’m back to Firefox. I see Opera is still around though.
Opera is now owned by a Chinese company, it is just a webkit/blink shell and, I have zero trust in them.
