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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/46655413

The Mozilla Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Firefox browser maker Mozilla, has laid off 30% of its employees as the organization says it faces a “relentless onslaught of change.”

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[–] [email protected] 289 points 2 days ago (34 children)

Regardless, don’t use chrome.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 days ago (18 children)

If Mozilla does become defunct, it does raise the question of whether Chrome would be considered a Google monopoly, and therefore subject to antitrust legislation.

I can't imagine any governments would look kindly upon internet access being guarded behind a single company's product.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (10 children)

There is a new browser based on WebKit (safari), called Orion that looks promising. However, it’s only on macOS and iOS at this point. Hopefully Linux and Android will be a consideration at some point.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There's also a new browser based on Firefox/Gecko called Zen. There's way too many browsers based on Webkit or Blink.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Zen has less frequent security updates. But yes zen is a good gecko alternative.

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

zen integrates every upstream change a few hours after release, it is built as a set of patch on top of firefox just to make that easy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Hmm. Well, I’ll have to give it a go. Thanks.

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