I really like firefox but I'm switching to brave
sorry privacy freaks
@Jessica as a brave user, i can easily tell you brave sucks (but there aren't many better options out there
@mjdxp yea brave isn't great but it's the best of the trash
@Jessica i consider brave to a a C tier browser, but basically every other browser is a D tier or F tier
@pjals @Jessica those are based on firefox, which is funded by google. if google decided to stop funding firefox, it probably wouldn't last much longer.

@mjdxp @Jessica yes, but the developers of icecat and librewolf are not funded my google, it is a fork, not a rebrand

@Jessica Not necessarily, the development might slow down, or go in completely different direction, but it will live on in some form. Pale Moon was forked off Firefox years ago and it's still pretty much alive. Firefox itself is based on "dead" Netscape code base. Developed by community ≠ dead. In fact, I think it might be be better fate for Firefox than being controlled by a centralized entity like Mozilla 🤷
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@m0xee @pjals @mjdxp yea but the people just removing telemetry probably aren't gonna carry the whole weight by themselves.
@m0xee @mjdxp @pjals and firefox is already behind chrome so being even more behind is probably not great.
the browser already isn't great
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@Jessica True. And you can never win this race unless you yourself have the resources of Google. But "going small" and not relying on latest-greatest APIs might be a good thing for web development. E.g. HTTP/3 — does everyone like that? I think not, it's a privacy nightmare, maybe not supporting that is a good thing.
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@m0xee @pjals @mjdxp nah if anything it's gonna be a bad thing for firefox
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