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Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive
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this post was submitted on 02 May 2025
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"We need the devil to stay alive ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ"
Cry me a river. Maybe you don't deserve to live if evil sustains you.
Maybe these fucks should find a more honest "business model" that doesn't rely on handouts from a monopolist like, who knows, maybe try and talk to governments to be their default browser and be paid for support? Or refocus your efforts and trim the fat from the top that's sucking millions out of the org for firing people and making bad decisions? Or let your users donate money directly to firefox development instead of going "we'll accept your money, but it might go into anything but firefox"? Or a bunch of other things that don't mean keeping the biggest invader of privacy alive just so that you can survive?
Switched to Librewolf a few months ago, no regrets.
Isn't librewolf building on the latest versions of firefox or gecko or something? So if firefox does, so does librewolf?
Yep, that's the problem with browsers. They cost so much to maintain that their primary contributors are earning money through other means to keep the projects going. Gecko and Chromium are open-source, backed by Google money on both ends, but even then almost all of the non-corporate browser projects are just forks of one or the other.
Other than Safari, which is closed source and only on Apple's walled garden, Ladybird is the only non-Chromium, non-Gecko browser I can think of, and it needs a LOT of work.
It's a fork, so they can choose what to incorporate from Mozilla or not. If they go "bad" at anytime I'll just switch again.
The point is that librewolf is downstream of Firefox. They are not equipped to maintain an entire browser if Firefox goes the way of the dodo
Prolly not... But we gonna have to have a real convo about future of Firefox. It can't die. Fuck mozilla but the peasants gonna need to come with some money and it to people who can maintain a proper fork. Otherwise we are all fucking cooked.
I know there other engines cooking but they immature and at this point either mozilla gets its act together (it won't) or ff will need to be forked with FOSS values. We have to pay to make it happen.