• @[email protected]
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    291 year ago

    I’m still using Chrome, but it keeps getting shittier. At some point they’ll push me over to Firefox. Hope Firefox can avoid getting shitty.

    • @[email protected]
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      541 year ago

      While Mozilla is far from perfect, I think they’ve managed to avoid getting shitty for almost 20 years.

      • @[email protected]
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        371 year ago

        That’s because the Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit. They don’t need to maximize value for their shareholders™.

        Thank you Netscape for setting Navigator free!

        The Enshitification cycle is a feature of for profit corporations, Google was always going to turn evil at some point.

        • NaN
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          1 year ago

          The Mozilla Corporation is for profit, but they reinvest all of their profits. They are also wholly owned by the Foundation. You can’t donate to Firefox.

          • @[email protected]
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            141 year ago

            Yes, and they’ve made some profit-driven decisions, such as pocket integration, but never on the level of what google does.

            That’s why I’ve said they are far from perfect (but the best we have).

            • NaN
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              131 year ago

              And dropping Thunderbird :(

              Although it seems to be doing well now under its own, newish commercial corporation.

              • @nomadjoanne
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                31 year ago

                It’s coming along nicely. I donate and am a fan.

          • LEX
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            That’s what non-profit means. You reinvest the profit back into the project rather than pocket the money. It doesn’t literally mean “no profit”.

            • NaN
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              Cool. They also have rules about how you make money and where that money goes. The Mozilla Corporation is not a non-profit. It is a commercial company created to make profit to support development.

              • LEX
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                31 year ago

                So, a non-profit that skirts the rules, basically. Good to know.

              • @steakmeout
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                21 year ago

                It is a non-profit.

                The Mozilla Corporation was established on August 3, 2005, to handle the revenue-related operations of the Mozilla Foundation. As a non-profit, the Mozilla Foundation is limited in terms of the types and amounts of revenue it can have. The Mozilla Corporation, as a taxable organization (essentially, a commercial operation), does not have to comply with such strict rules. Upon its creation, the Mozilla Corporation took over several areas from the Mozilla Foundation, including coordination and integration of the development of Firefox and Thunderbird (by the global free software community) and the management of relationships with businesses.

                • NaN
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                  Did you read that? Because it says it isn’t.

                  The Foundation is a non-profit. The Corporation is not. The Corporation is taxable. It can generate revenue in ways a non-profit cannot.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        Somehow it’s always the lead software in a category that becomes shitty while everything else is praised. Regardless of what’s being talked about. (I know why)

        • @[email protected]
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          01 year ago

          People get used to it, it’s “fine” but doesn’t improve considerably or add anything exciting, so people get bored. I moved from Firefox to Chrome, and honestly Chrome feels smoother and uses less ram seemingly for me on my laptop. Aside from no support for vaapi on wayland, chrome is fine imo

      • Marceline
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        91 year ago

        my friend actually convinced me to switch just a few days ago lol. i’m just super thankful that i could transfer all my bookmarks and stuff

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          Once you finish setting up and are happy, if you care about privacy and don’t mind a little more upfront work, set up Multi account tabs. It “sandboxes” your logins and cookies to categories you choose. I have a category for each social media site, one for my finances, one for amazon, one for other shopping, etc.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        I live by, “never do anything you don’t have to.” But seriously I have some things customized in Chrome I’d have to adapt to Firefox. It would take a little effort on my part and I just don’t want to deal with it until I have to. I’m sure it will happen sooner than later. I think the deprecation of Manifest V2 is going to force it because my browser is essentially a uBO support system. Until then I’ll keep slogging along.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      Have you tried Brave? Idk the full story, but it is basically chrome with more privacy stuff and is way faster than normal chrome. Feels just like using chrome but faster.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        Brave has recently had some controversy around selling user data for AI training and isn’t really a great suggestion for privacy due to this.