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Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox (arstechnica.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

So to recap, your choices are

One of 70 flavors of Chromium including the "privacy centric" Opera who run Chinese loan shark gangs for some reason, Edge which is Microsoft Chromium and aside from hardware acceleration capabilities is pretty meh, and Brave which despite operating their own separate search engine index are one of the most likely to sell your data and/or kidneys
Rapidly Enshitifying Firefox
Safari - no comment
Whatever the fuck Gecko is...
Tor Browser (for people with infinite time to wait for pages to load, or maybe just drug dealers)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

RE: point 1, I'm a fan of Vivaldi, a privacy-focused highly modified chromium build developed by former Opera developers who were disillusioned by the direction that company went in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

That sounds nice, I'll check it out.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago

I hope the folks laid off land on their feet.

I'm starting to think FF is being deliberately run into the ground by the higher ups. It would be good to hear from some of the devs about their thoughts on all this.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

fuck firefox! it's been full of bloat for almost 10 years now. Use Librewolf instead.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Weird to say fuck firefox and then suggest using basically just firefox instead

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

That's not all of what I said

Firefox is full of tracking from advertising companies and Google now

Librewolf is Firefox without the bloat and hardening done out of the box

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago

This surprises people? Mozilla has always been Mozilla's biggest enemy.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Well guys we had a good run, free and open source software is officially over

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Not entirely. There is LibreWolf (Formerly IceWolf) on desktop. https://librewolf.net

Mull is apparently an Android option that's also a fork, but I'm just installing it now, and can also say its only on FDroid.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

I know man it's a joke lol. There's a bajillion forks of firefox that are mostly better than vanilla firefox itself. FOSS will never die.