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this post was submitted on 28 May 2026
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Gross, guess I should finally switch over to Ironfox or Waterfox or Librewolf or whatever...
You mean all the forks that rely entirely on the Firefox engineering team to exist?
*relied
The forks already exist now, so the cat's kinda out of the bag. Sure, they may benefit from updates from Mozilla, but it's not like they're just going to up and disappear or stop working all of the sudden.
No, they still rely on the Firefox engineering team to keep updating Firefox and to keep adding necessary additions for web standards, security updates, performance fixes, and so on and so forth.
All of these forks will fall behind web standards changes and effectively just become the Firefox flavor of Internet Explorer over time. It won't happen overnight. You're right about that, but it will most definitely happen over the course of a few years. Effectively handing full control over to Google and Chrome
All of these forks rely on Firefox to provide the hard bits in order to keep up with Chrome, or at least attempt to keep up with Chrome.
Building a browser is pretty damn hard, and honestly, it's a miracle that even the Firefox engineering team has managed to do what they do, given they only have, at best, a quarter of the resources that Google puts towards their browser.