Post #4023270

2026-07-22 22:24 UTC

Based on the response to my thread yesterday, and the fact that I have been having conversations along this line for a year I really believe that there is demand for such a thing (and IME with doing non-profit dev work for the better part of the last decade: demand is not uncorrelated with the ability to long term fund a thing). People want free and independent browsers, unencumbered with non-consensual bullshit, built by humans.

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@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social 2026-07-22 23:21

Bootstrapping a project like this is a daunting task. But we are where we are. I am almost certainly not the right person to manage this, but I believe this needs to be done enough to try and get the ball rolling. I've setup https://codeberg.org/basebrowserproject/organization/issues/1 as a place to start to gather notes/issues/ideas and connect people - if you have some skills or any other ability to help, and want to help, then get in touch.

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@yoasif@mastodon.social 2026-07-22 22:27

@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social That USED to be #firefox. 😢

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@mcc@mastodon.social 2026-07-22 22:28

@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social I think all your observations here are good, I do want to note there will be an interesting tipping point when Servo gets feature complete enough that "fork firefox, or just use Servo?" will start to become a practical question

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@doctormo@floss.social 2026-07-22 23:13

@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social OK so we need: 1) A manager (are you available?) 2) Some money would be nice to prime the pump honestly 3) A LOT of very careful negotiation with existing forks 4) And a commitment from users to invest in this as a thing they not just want, but are willing to put some actual resources into getting. I believe this is possible. But I'm already turning the ship at Inkscape, so finding a manager for this more serious and responsive firefox browser would be someone else.

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