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Mozilla Welcomes Anonym: Privacy Preserving Digital Advertising (blog.mozilla.org)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The biggest problem with the alternative browsers I wanted to use is, that they are not managed by my distribution (repository).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What distribution are you using? Every distro I've tried, even the more obscure ones (alpine, void, openbsd), package most of the webkit/webengine browsers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

EndevourOS, based on Archlinux. I was looking into forks of Firefox. For a webbrowser, it should be in the repository (not AUR) and it should be as quickly updated as Firefox itself. None of the forks I looked into match this criteria.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why use Arch (or something Arch based) then? I don't like the AUR either (or systemd, or the bleeding edge (buggy) packages), which is why I like Void Linux.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I wouldn't call Arch bleeding edge. There are 2 stages before packages get updated in the repository for everyone (maybe besides trusted projects? which get immadiate update). I wait since almost 3 weeks until they update RetroArch. :D But that's just terminology and not really important.

I personally want the newest stuff and being updated all the time. Systemd isn't a problem for me, it's fine to me. The packages from Arch repository aren't buggy for me, so no complains there. You can always find reasons why to switch to another distribution, but that often is not the entire truth. There is often so much more to consider. My previous point is about the software I was looking into not packaged by the distribution of my choice. So many people say packages should come upstream, like in Flatpak and distributions should not package anymore. I hardly disagree here. But I digress... again...

I'm not here to switch my distribution, but think about switching to another Firefox base. I think Firefox is a great browser and want to keep using it, but have a few disagreements with Mozilla lately. That's why I was looking into an alternative fork. I will stay on EndeavourOS slash Archlinux... at the moment at least.

Edit: Dang it, I did it again. Why do I need to write entire blog posts as a forum reply?