I’ve been seeing a lot of information lately about mozilla, and a lot of questionable claims being made about their “direction.” The bulk of their revenue comes from google, and I have been working very hard to de-google everything I can. I have moved away from drive, gmail, search, etc.
I am using Fedora on all my computers, and am logged into firefox on each of them so I have complete sync with all my devices. Are the posts I am seeing blown out of proportion, or should I be looking for another browser?
Thanks in advance!
problem is that there really isn’t much alternative currently:
- you can switch to a Firefox fork like LibreWolf or Mullvad
- or Tor Browser and live with no cookies, no saved logins, etc.
- you can go through trying to maintain Firefox + arkenfox if you want fine grain control
- you can switch to any of the Chromium forks which puts you back at the starting point
- and then you have to deal with lack of ad-blocking once Manifest V3 goes mainstream
- there’s a huge pile of smaller, independent, or specialty browsers out there
- but ad-blocking is hit-or-miss and plugin support is often non-existent
- hold out hope for one of the up-and-comers
- Servo – just the engine at this point, who knows how long until a full browser is ready
- Ladybird – if you want to be associated with the “problematic” opinions of the developers …
Such a shame about ladybird, sounds very promising but opinions like that do real damage to the image of a project
As much as it seems that they shouldn’t, they do. Those people are leading and if they let their personal opinions hang over into their work, it matters. People will not want to contribute or be associated with people with those opinions and views and some people that would have been contributers will feel persecuted.