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What happens to Firefox forks if Firefox dies? (lemmy.today)

submitted 20 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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With the enshittification of all-things-Google, a lot of us have left Chromium-based browsers for Firefox. But still, over the last 15 years, Firefox has gone from 30%+ market share to about 6% now.

With the big backlash against them over the last week, I've seen a number of people advocating for Librewolf and Waterfox -- Firefox forks focused on security and privacy -- but if Firefox loses what little revenue it has left, what will become of the forks if Firefox dies?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

But microsoft is garbage company so that doesn't say much. They've been trying to remake their settings page for more than a decade and it is still shit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Bad argument, Microsoft is among the three most valuable companies in the world, when something is important to them they get it done properly (e.g. hyperv is the best made part of windows, because they need it for azure). The settings page doesn't get them money, only nerds care if it's bad, a browser does.