We don’t need a fork of Firefox.
We need a fork of Mozilla.
#Mozilla #Firefox
@Jeremiah@alpaca.gold :oof:
Ok, this fork of Firefox actually is pretty great:
@zenbrowser@fosstodon.org is Firefox under the hood, but with a UX more like Arc. It’s already had over 2 million downloads. I am trying it out for a week as my primary browser and will report back.
#Mozilla #Firefox
@Jeremiah@alpaca.gold
I’m using Zen since some weeks now and really like it!Thanks @zenbrowser@fosstodon.org for developing such a great fork <3
We need more browser competition.
Switching to a Chromium-based browser (Arc, Brave, Vivaldi, Edge, et al) does not increase browser competition. It just further strengthens Google’s ability to control the web as a platform.
#Mozilla #Firefox
Oops. Broke my own thread.
Continued here: https://alpaca.gold/@Jeremiah/114075289692237708
Found a list with supposed non-chromium browsers. But it’s a couple of years old, so I don’t know if it holds water.
There’s Firefox & Waterfox
Librewolf
Mullvad
GNOME Web (Epiphany)
Pale Moon
SeaMonkey
Midori
K-Meleon
Otter Browser
And of cause, Safari.
I can’t speak to the validity or quality of any of these. But at least there is something to look into.
I would like to add Zen Browser as a nice Firefox Fork
I think we all need to throw support at Mullvad and Windscribe. I really wish one of them would introduce a Proton-esque type of environment.
A fork of Mozilla would result in a fork of Firefox, though.
i believe they were speaking as a ‘fork’ of the corporation itself
@rumschlumpel@feddit.org
@Jeremiah@alpaca.gold There are many forks of firefox, it isn’t hard to do. However since Mozilla does most of the hard work on the core all the forks end up being skin deep changes. Mozilla controls all the hard code behind firefox and so the evil that Mozilla does is almost impossible to remove (forks will sometimes disable it, but it is still there waiting for someone to make a mistake).
What we need is all the people forking firefox to get together and fork Mozilla thus getting a core that believes in some principals that Mozilla used to give lip service to. This core needs a dedicated team who work on the hard parts.
@bluGill@fedia.io @rumschlumpel@feddit.org So far, the “evil” is not in the Firefox codebase. It’s only in the Mozilla privacy policy.
Removing actual bad things from the Chromium codebase has proven to be very difficult to maintain.
@Jeremiah@alpaca.gold
@rumschlumpel@feddit.org as soon as mozilla puts bad things in we are sunk umless someone maintains the code.
Duckduckgo?
DDG browser is Blink which is Chromium.
Hmm… disappointing
