Post #1782644

2025-04-11 23:21 UTC

@bremner And then what? Firefox is essentially owned and paid for by Google. They already have their own manifest 3 in the works. They will ultimately do whatever Google wants. Most of the forks are poorly supported. Remember that the Pale Moon archive was actually infected with a trojan? That sort of thing doesn't happen at big companies that have someone in charge of verifying security.

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@snarfmason@hachyderm.io 2025-04-12 01:25

@number6 @bremner given he's on Linux, you've got Gnome Web (formerly epiphany) or Konquerer to work with if you don't like Firefox.

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@elgregor@social.librem.one 2025-04-12 14:11

@number6 @bremner Firefox will support manifest 3, but has no plans to abandon manifest 2. Mozilla is desperately trying to get other sources of income than Google paying to be the default search engine. This is why Mozilla VPN and Firefox Relay exist. Buying them supports Firefox development.

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@DalinarKholin@pol.social 2025-04-13 10:07

@number6 @bremner What do you think about Zen browser (FF fork)?

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@etsyy@mastodon.catgirl.cloud 2025-04-16 18:46

@number6 @bremner you can effectively disable Mozilla issues with about:config and/or arkenfox or a fork like librewolf if you trust that they can keep up with security updates fast enough. and while I personally don't like the company ethics, if you need chromium you can always use brave

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