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So, I'm staying with #Firefox, even though their CEO is tone-deaf and clumsy and destroying #Mozilla's reputation because today I had to remove 6 extensions in #Vivaldi (my sometimes alternate (hear-me.social)
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So, I'm staying with #Firefox, even though their CEO is tone-deaf and clumsy and destroying #Mozilla's reputation because today I had to remove 6 extensions in #Vivaldi (my sometimes alternate browser), several of which were security-related, because of Google's changes. I miss them. I want them back.

Bottom line. I definitely feel more secure using Firefox than a Chrome-based browser, and I won't let my disappointment with Mozilla kill off the only alternative to Google. I will continue using Firefox.

As far as using a fork of Firefox, if Firefox doesn't live on, neither will these forks.

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[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This is like saying Linux can’t be viable because Microsoft spends an estimated 3-5 Bilion on windows annually.

To me, the value of the internet is in connecting people with freedom of expression. I don't know what you believe any of us is gaining by letting google walk over us.

If we just stop playing along it looks like the enshitificated corpo owned sites are doing us one favor by isolating themselves from us, motivating innovation. But we wont be isolated from the net. We will be right here.

And if we look at historical references of a split internet. Facebook has an .onion version to be used with tor. So actually, they will still be chasing us. Because they need us way more then we need them.

[-] Meshuggah333@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago

No, because Linux is backed by big corpos, Microsoft included. Firefox isn't.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 8 points 2 days ago

it's more like saying Linux wouldn't be viable at the scale it exists at today if it suddenly had the resources it had in 1995.

i want to believe development on Firefox could continue without Mozilla, but browsers are a fast-moving target with a massive attack surface.

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