They’re 80% dependent on google there is no choice. Mozilla’s behaviour since they got the google deal was the begining of the end. I honestly believe that due to Mozilla’s current leadership it would be best for open source developers to all refocus on the ladybird project. I don’t have any affiliation to that project and I understand how huge of an undertaking it is to build a web engine from scratch but the gecko engine is polluted by the Mozilla’s execs and by extension Google.

To make it clear Google controls Firefox by, in practice, owning an 80% share of Mozilla.

Please ban them, I beg of you, please…

*Popular opinion

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but getting blind drunk in the street every night for them is fine. Ridiculous.

Me crying on my Zenfone 10 right now. Shame because it’s a brilliant phone.

My personal little conspiracy theory as a French person:

The Président was fully expecting the far right and right to win so that they could be ridiculed while in power (since the very moment you are in power in France you are unpopular) therefore guaranteeing that the right and far right do not win the next presidential election. However the left unexpectedly won the election throwing off the plan. Due to this he has been forced to push through in nominating a conservative Prime Minister so that the right could be still ridiculed while in power and mobilizing more than ever the left, thus saving French democracy for the next presidential elections.

See you next year!

The lines have never been this blurred between caricature and reality.

I get the sentiment but that is in no fashion a way to move forward.

yes it is known that not being wholsome = not being communist.

I’m genuinely unsurprised my previous comment got removed but anyway at least thanks for answering and providing an example.

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Absolute mad lad

Nice to wake up to some good news. wish they were not all going to bluesky though…

My French mind translates it into english this way: The little forgetting

Most of the revenue of Mozilla Corporation comes from Google (81% in 2022[2]) in exchange of making it the default search engine in Firefox.

Source: wikipedia

Other issues I have with Firefox is the telemetry bits, the way they handle some of their employees (laying one guy off because he has cancer), the lack of meaningful updates and features in the last decade, CEO granting herself a nice pay rise after doing well nothing really. The list goes on and on honestly.

Don’t get me wrong, you should still use Firefox or a Firefox derived browser if you care about a free internet. I myself use firefox (although I just switched to Zen browser on my PC which is based on Firefox). However we shouldn’t be blind ourselves just because we hate anything google based and/or closed sourced. Firefox is still back by a for profit company which is, as I quoted earlier, backed at least by 80% by google.

For the positive side now it seems that in the last 2-3 months firefox has been pumping out meaningful updates (even on mobile). Things seem to be taking a positive turn recently and I’m actually a bit excited to see where firefox is going to go from here.

Not the Onion

In before the disappointment

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