please don’t!! linux repository people don’t do that please!! firefox is still awesome and, i haven’t really read the change the firefox foundation has made, but i really hope this does not mean it will stop existing on linux. will debian replace it with waterweasel?
i still like firefox and i’m content it’s still open source at least!!!
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Like every other package out there, you can always either download the binary file from github or compile the code yourself if a distro decides to remove a package out of their repo. (Which I presume it’ll never happen since firefox is still very popular, despise its downsides.)
Haven’t heard about any distros removing Firefox from the repos.
It’s possible that some distros may go an IceWeasel by default route, but I see that as unlikely.
Debian literally used a de-Mozilla’ed fork called Icewesel for like a decade. It’s fine. I never noticed any differences.
Huh?
Can’t you just download it yourself if that’s the case?
flatpak?? thank you!!
Plenty of distros do package closed source software that does who knows what. i wouldn’t worry about it for now. if you are on a distro that takes a hardline stance on privacy, it was probably gone a while ago, but i don’t actually know any such distros right now.
i haven’t really read the change the firefox foundation has made
Or you can watch a helpful video. https://youtu.be/-8bTquKjzos
Basically, the internet is overreacting again, but it’s partly because Mozilla is shit at communicating. They should know better and understand that we’re all experiencing rapid enshittification. Corporations aren’t trustworthy. You can’t just remove mention of “not selling your data” and just expect average people to parse the laws and your ToS and your Privacy Policy and connect all the pieces.
I would contradict you. The internet is not overreacting, Mozilla and parts of its community try to downplay the issue at hand.
Because they won’t read. They look at the change of the ToS only and think that they understand what has changed.
I don’t particularly care which browser people use; I just want people to be able to make an informed decision, thus I provided evidence that the internet is overreacting. Where’s yours?
Firefox is licenced under a copyleft license. Mozilla can’t stop distros packaging it even if they wanted to.
They’d need to replace the branding, but that’s not a big deal.
I highly doubt it. Even if they did though, if they just replace it with a firefox fork it could work pretty much as a drop-in replacement.
Firefox has effectively become spyware, and so, yes, it should be replaced. There are several forks that work well. I’m using Floorp (stupid name, but really nice with some improvements over vanilla Firefox). Zen is another one gaining in popularity. Try them out! Don’t let Mozilla walk away with your data.
i’m sorry but i will let them walk away because they have supported linux since the beginning and are open source and have shown respect to torvalds!!
In the open source world, you show respect by forking. Not by licking the ass of data monsters.
