this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2024
1544 points (98.9% liked)

Memes

45581 readers
1617 users here now

Rules:

  1. Be civil and nice.
  2. Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] HauntedBucket@lemm.ee 76 points 3 months ago (25 children)

I am specifically waiting for this to happen so I can be part of the flood to Firefox when they finally throw the switch.

load more comments (25 replies)
[–] atro_city@fedia.io 62 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

While introducing opt-out tracking where you data is sent to advertisers. Get LibreWolf instead.

[–] VarosBounska@lemmy.ml 22 points 3 months ago

Oh I didn't know this fork, thanks!

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Or just set the few relevant settings manually, if you need nightly/dev edition.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Until the next dumb shit Mozilla does without telling its users.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 21 points 3 months ago (11 children)

Except I've heard about every change from here. And as I read the nightly changelogs, it's not that hidden actually.

load more comments (11 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 46 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Still the best browser, even though the majority left it for the speed they think chrome has.

load more comments (8 replies)
[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 45 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I’m really hoping Google’s antitrust case doesn’t kill Mozilla. Over 85% of Mozilla’s cash flow is dependent on Google paying for that search box.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 39 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If Mozilla stopped paying his CEO millions of dollars... and if they actually financed development with people donations...

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 months ago

We don't know what they pay their new CEO.

[–] Sarcasmo220@lemmy.ml 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't think google wants to get hit with another antitrust lawsuit for web browsing, so I am sure they will figure out some other deal to funnel money to Firefox

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 3 months ago (20 children)

Mozilla's slowly creeping in the surveillance with adding integrated crap like Pocket and AI driven Fake Spot. I'm really glad Librewolf's made a privacy focused fork of their browser without all that nonsense.

load more comments (20 replies)
[–] RadioFreeArabia@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago

I really hope there's a significant rise in Firefox -and derivatives- usage share. It will be good for everyone, even those stuck on Chromium browsers.

[–] NiPfi@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago (6 children)

And in the meantime Mozilla keeps making worse decisions, too

[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Enshitification of all the things.

load more comments (5 replies)
[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Has it actually been confirmed when it's coming? I feel like this has been threatened for years now.

[–] ivn@jlai.lu 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It started in june, for now it's just showing a warning saying that the extension will soon no longer be supported. They'll be disabled gradually until the beginning of 2025.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate/mv2-deprecation-timeline

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ah I see. Boiling the frog as it were.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 months ago (5 children)

"And then Mozilla management comes in from the top rope with the chair"

Seriously, for profit companies should not own open source projects.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago

That for-profit company is owned by a non-profit. They don't have shareholders to which they could pay out the profits.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] SuperIce@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (12 children)

Mozilla is about to collapse due to the Google antitrust ruling though.

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 11 points 3 months ago

Mozilla and its murder/suicide pact with Google falling apart may be the best thing that could possibly happen to Firefox.

load more comments (11 replies)
[–] Ascend910@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)
load more comments (5 replies)
[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

We need another meme like this about Firefox but with the first panel saying "Antitrust judgement against Google" and the second panel blank, without anyone coming to the rescue.

The large majority of Mozilla's revenue comes from the money that Google pays to be the default search engine in Firefox.

load more comments
view more: next β€Ί