• @foggy
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    3 months ago

    Been saying the writing is on the wall for their enshittification for months. On lemmy. Every time I end up with 20+ downvotes.

    Eat me. Here it comes.

    Still using Firefox until it officially sucks, but if you haven’t seen it coming you’ve been willfully ignorant.

    I expect a Ubuntu fork packaged with Firefox a la windows 98/IE as a paid OS in the next 5 years to try to undercut Microsoft. Or something. Idk the future.

    • @[email protected]
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      173 months ago

      oh hey it’s you! I actually thought about your comments as soon as I saw this headline. I switched from Firefox to brave a few years ago, then recently switched to waterfox as they are again independent of system1 like before. the browser itself removes a lot of unnecessary Mozilla integrations and also reverts the proton UI. maybe forks like this or Librewolf are the future for this browser?

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        3 months ago

        Ah, the chromium approach.*

        :D

        No, I think you’re right. (I think people will strip down Firefox and those strip down versions will probably persist to be the ideal browser for years to come)

        *I am aware that there is a difference here

        • @laughterlaughter
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          33 months ago

          That’s not the chromium approach. That’s the Phoenix (a fork of Netscape Navigator) approach.

          Of course, Phoenix ended up becoming Firefox.

        • @EvolvedTurtle
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          13 months ago

          If you don’t mind me asking What is the difference?