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Why We Are Here => Hardware & Technology => Topic started by: rcjordan on December 28, 2023, 04:53:48 PM

Title: "Moving away from Firefox is exactly Mozilla's plan"
Post by: rcjordan on December 28, 2023, 04:53:48 PM
https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5053290/mozilla-2023-annual-report-ceo-pay-skyrockets-while-firefox-marketshare-nosedives

Mozilla 2023 Annual Report: CEO pay skyrockets, while Firefox Marketshare nosedives
Title: Re: "Moving away from Firefox is exactly Mozilla's plan"
Post by: ergophobe on December 28, 2023, 11:17:41 PM
QuoteThe focus for the future of Mozilla -- according to Mozilla -- is primarily based around Artificial Intelligence services.

Of course it does.
Title: Re: "Moving away from Firefox is exactly Mozilla's plan"
Post by: Brad on December 29, 2023, 05:59:17 PM
I hate it when not for profits start acting like commercial enterprises.

IMHO, Mozilla has made 15 years of mostly bad decisions with Firefox.  Hopefully somebody will fork FF before they pull the plug.
Title: Re: "Moving away from Firefox is exactly Mozilla's plan"
Post by: littleman on December 29, 2023, 09:05:01 PM
>Of course it does.

Hitching on to the most trendy tech as a Hail Marry.  Developing AI is one thing, but path to income is a totally different thing.  I never understood why companies (non profit or not) like Mozilla and Mac never leveraged their captive audiences to develop their own search.  I know Mozilla was was/is on a life line from Google, but they could have done so much with it.  Mac is even more baffling. 
Title: Re: "Moving away from Firefox is exactly Mozilla's plan"
Post by: Brad on January 06, 2024, 07:08:41 PM
I ran across this browser today:

Floorp is built on Firefox and was built in Japan and is a new browser with excellent privacy & flexibility.

https://floorp.app/en/
Title: Re: "Moving away from Firefox is exactly Mozilla's plan"
Post by: ergophobe on January 06, 2024, 10:16:46 PM
It's Chromium based, but this one might interest you Brad
https://arc.net/
Title: Re: "Moving away from Firefox is exactly Mozilla's plan"
Post by: littleman on January 06, 2024, 10:19:06 PM
I've been playing with a very minimalistic and privacy oriented browser called BadWolf lately.  It is Linux only and definitely not for everybody, JavaScript has to be enabled every time you use it.  I like it because it has relatively few dependencies for an HTML5 compatible browser.  It is going to be featured in a project I am working on.

https://hacktivis.me/projects/badwolf
Title: Re: "Moving away from Firefox is exactly Mozilla's plan"
Post by: Brad on January 06, 2024, 11:09:39 PM
Floorp gets compared to Vivaldi in that it's highly customizable and it has features.

Ergo, Arc is completely new to me.  Nice find.

LM, I've heard of Badwolf somewhere hopefully it will work for your project.
Title: Re: "Moving away from Firefox is exactly Mozilla's plan"
Post by: grnidone on January 09, 2024, 05:00:21 PM
I love FF. I'll be sad if it gets abandoned.
Title: Re: "Moving away from Firefox is exactly Mozilla's plan"
Post by: littleman on January 09, 2024, 07:05:29 PM
I suspect that someone organization will pick up the code and run with it if Mozilla stops development.  We can't live in a world where 99.999% of the browsers are powered by the same engine that's controlled by Google.
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