Technology

59166 readers

2125 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

342

Mozilla CEO quits, org pivots, but what about Firefox? (www.theregister.com)

submitted 9 months ago by ooli@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

130 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

the corporate world seems desperate to kill it. its chrome/edge or GTFO

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

In swear this mainly has to do with it's about:config being so much more robust and vast than chromium's //flags settings. The fact so many privacy related forks (Librewolf, Mullvad, Mull, Tor) are based off of firefox and not chromium (Ungoogled Chromium) should point to why these corporations are seething at it.

Google was/is keeping Firefox afloat via funding as the article points out. This is mainly due to the fact that Google didn't have a real competitor in the browser space for some time until Microsoft got Edge off the ground and finally killed Internet Explorer.

Personally I see Firefox as being the superior browser for privacy and customization. I also don't think it's going anywhere, but it's funding relying so heavily on one entity is an issue. If Google decides to pull it's funding of Firefox and no other major corporation steps in to provide the needed cash flow... well who knows, guess it'll be a chromium world after all.

[–] artic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Good corpos should made suffer ,the more they cope and seethe the better

[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 months ago

They all want to FULLY control the end user.

probe and profile the device used
force unstoppable ads
require GPS location and maybe 2fa to make sure it's you that is watching the ads. -web assembly alone will make script blocking impossible and enable scammers to run anything they want.

The end result will be something like the DVD menus from the 90s and 00s. The difference is that it will have full access to all the data on your computer or device.