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@strangeculprits @kevinrns @Pineywoozle I don't understand how you think this is an alternative if you think that Mozilla may not continue to exist. It's not like this browser has any real marketshare, any way of monetizing itself (in order to hire people), or even a significant contributor base. Are you comfortable saying "use it for as long as it lasts, and don't think about whether using this actually hurts the upstream"? Because I don't really see how Floorp can replace what Mozilla does. 5 comments
@strangeculprits @kevinrns @Pineywoozle I'm pretty doubtful of your third point -- the support given to Gecko *today* is minuscule - why would organizations attempt to replace Google's revenue entirely, rather than contributing to Chromium or WebKit on the margins? What is more likely -- that developers will gravitate towards forking or contributing to a fully funded codebase with paid developers, or one that has no upstream and will quickly experience user flight? @strangeculprits @kevinrns @Pineywoozle I have no idea what your Twitter comment meant - Firefox *is* the alternative that has paid labor. Floorp is cool, but a developer working on the margins isn't going to keep Gecko going if the upstream dies. Where does your belief come from? Do you have any evidence to support it? For example, Igalia and Microsoft have contributed to Chromium. Google has contributed to WebKit and developed Blink. Where is the extensive outside work coming to for Gecko?  @yoasif @strangeculprits @kevinrns Hello, this thread has officially exceeded by my competency level and my interest.😜 Could you drop me? |
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@yoasif @kevinrns @Pineywoozle
Perhaps we misunderstand each other.
Our post was simply to share, *with end users,* that a FF based browser --with better default user security protections-- is available now.
As you are the former moderator of r/firefox, surely you know the following:
1. Google supports FF as a fig leaf against FTC antitrust claims. The current FTC sees through that ruse. Google may pull financial support of Mozilla as a result.
2. Mozilla, fearful of going dark from losing the Google money, has started changing Firefox in ways that, in the long run, could turn FF into nothing more than Chrome with a different rendering engine.
Gecko, Blink, and WebKit --the 3 largest actively maintained rendering engines-- are all open source licensed. Even if Mozilla loses its Google blood money and disappears, other organizations with an interest in continuing Gecko could (we think *would*) step in: the Linux Foundation, Apache, KDE, Framasoft, RedHat, SUSE, to name a few
@yoasif @kevinrns @Pineywoozle
Perhaps we misunderstand each other.
Our post was simply to share, *with end users,* that a FF based browser --with better default user security protections-- is available now.
As you are the former moderator of r/firefox, surely you know the following:
1. Google supports FF as a fig leaf against FTC antitrust claims. The current FTC sees through that ruse. Google may pull financial support of Mozilla as a result.