“Mozilla has a bit been shady lately, so we are making the difficult decision to change our default browser to something significantly more shady. We are confident our users will feel safer knowing their data is in even worse hands than before"
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one of the worst distros ever so I guess this is pretty obvious choice and telling to some.
No, that would be manjaro.
Define worst? It does what it says, it's an easy stable distro for windows refugees. Slow updates doesn't make something bad
A bad move. But again i hate that many distros have a default browser and they don't let you choose.
While FF's evil quotient has been on the rise, Brave definitely isn't a better option. If anything, librewolf is the way to go.
As a Librewolf user I wouldn't make it default for casual users this kind of distro is aiming for. Sure enabling logins to use it as a main browser is piss easy, but that's still more work than the average person wants to put into setting up their system.
Waterfox would be the better choice since it's just default Firefox in every way besides Mozilla's spyware.
Agreed, I wouldn't recommend Librewolf for casual users. I understand why Librewolf makes those decisions, and I'm glad that it exists, but you definitely run into some quirks when using it. I'm thinking about switching from Librewolf to Waterfox myself.
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Doesn't Librewolf log you out of every site when you close it, by default? I don't think that's a good default
That is the default behaviour, but it's pretty trivial to change. Also, I'd imagine the distro maintainer could choose to change the default settings as part of a post-install script, if they wanted to.
Edit: Not sure why you're being downvoted, as I do think it's a valid concern.
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It has to be the default tho, bc the whole point of Librewolf is that it's trying to by default be untraceable and private.
It's very easy to disable that and re-enable cookies and the like, but your default experience will fundamentally be private, which is its goal
That's not the only point though. IIRC, they also remove telemetry, and pocket as well as some other things. I personally turn back on persistent sessions and history, but leave all the other privacy features there.
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"we replaced the browser with ad ware, that we even admit we had to ship settings to minimise its malware effect"
Brave marketing has gone crazy to convince people it's less dodgy than Firefox. Come on!
Every time someone says anything positive about Brave I assume they're part of the Crypto scheme, or love Brave's CEO.
Brave hates gays
I'm actually not familiar with this distro. But if I installed a Linux distro, and it had brave installed. I would immediately switch.
Brave is a fairly recent outlier, and while it isn't quite proprietary, it stinks a fair bit of something capitalist/crypto.
the everyday linux distro that is famous for asking people for money for their pro version, cause they know most of the userbase is coming from windows and doesnt know that everything is free?
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Seems like a strange choice. If anything i would've expected them to just use a firefox fork or something.
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That's a clown makeup moment for Zorin OS
Firefox is bad, Brave is evil. Why did they decide switching is a good idea?
That's gonna be a no from me, dawg
Boo
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talk about bad taste
I feel like if they were gonna go chromium, they should have gone with Vivaldi. It may not be open source but it's not doing a crypto scam. Waterfox would have also been a good choice, probably better because it's Gecko.
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The distro sucks anyway. They ship really fucking old packages, even more so than Debian or other stable distros.
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Not sure why they don't just ship Firefox with extensions like uBlock pre-installed
Edit: it looks like they're heavily tweaking Brave regardless. I doubt this move was for technical reasons
Brave is a series scam company. There are only two reasons anyone would support them: They were scammed, or they joined in the scam.
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Wow, never recommending zorin to anyone again. Switching from gecko to chromium is a dumb move.
Why not fork firefox
I think maintaning a Firefox fork is pretty demanding especially considering you are already maintaining a distro. And there are already a lot of Firefox forks out there.
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