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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago

I too would like this knowledge to be imparted upon my person.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hardened by default, no telemetry, no Pocket, virtually everything Mozilla-related removed, and timely updates unlike some other forks. It is like the Ungoogled Chromium equivalent of Firefox. Since I do not like the company it is the perfect option for me.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They are a for-profit company including laying off staff but their CEO still makes CEO money even while the company is struggling. Not to mention if you are trying to degoogle that is where Mozilla makes the bulk of its income. That's just a few things of many, they've also made stupid decisions like leaving Thunderbird out in the cold for years or that whole Colorways thing they wasted time on. Not to mention I don't actually even like Firefox the browser. I use librewolf strictlty out of principle and not because I actually prefer it over chromium. I think it is inferior in most ways but I am opposed to the centralization so here we are.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just as a sidenote, Thunderbird is not part of the same company as firefox and was part of the Mozilla foundation until 2020. Thunderbird is no longer "out in the cold". There is a new version (115) that you might want to check out if you like thunderbird.

I don't want to engage with the rest.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I am aware. I have been a Thunderbird user for at least 15 years which is why I am unhappy with their general treatment of it over the years as a second class citizen. But at least it is in a better place now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They waste a lot of money on unrelated projects

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Which they often half-ass, then discontinue like Lockwise. A bit like Google is handling their projects.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its hardened firefox, but you dont have to do any of the hardening yourself. Thats it, and thats why I continue to just use hardened firefox.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Heh... hardened

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

They pre-install ublock origin basically.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's hardened. Breaks websites if you don't loosen up security. Personally, I'm fine with not being able to access websites which absolutely attempt to implement rubbish like a bunch of failed redirects (looking at you aliexpress), but YMMV