We don’t need a fork of Firefox.
We don’t need a fork of Firefox.
We don’t need a fork of Firefox.
We need a fork of Mozilla.
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A fork of Mozilla would result in a fork of Firefox, though.
i believe they were speaking as a 'fork' of the corporation itself
@Jeremiah@alpaca.gold There are many forks of firefox, it isn't hard to do. However since Mozilla does most of the hard work on the core all the forks end up being skin deep changes. Mozilla controls all the hard code behind firefox and so the evil that Mozilla does is almost impossible to remove (forks will sometimes disable it, but it is still there waiting for someone to make a mistake).
What we need is all the people forking firefox to get together and fork Mozilla thus getting a core that believes in some principals that Mozilla used to give lip service to. This core needs a dedicated team who work on the hard parts.
@bluGill@fedia.io @rumschlumpel@feddit.org So far, the "evil" is not in the Firefox codebase. It's only in the Mozilla privacy policy.
Removing actual bad things from the Chromium codebase has proven to be very difficult to maintain.
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@rumschlumpel@feddit.org as soon as mozilla puts bad things in we are sunk umless someone maintains the code.