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I am fairly tech savvy and I willingly avoid using Firefox because I despise Mozilla. Thank you for your concerns.
I don't really like Mozilla, but how is Google any better? And those are the two options, unfortunately.
Exactly. Mozilla is better but not that much. What we really need is a 100% community-developed browser engine sponsored by several large companies that are independent from each other. But seems like it's too late, we're boiled frogs at this point. Although maybe these are the circumstances under which such an initiative could finally emerge.
Developing a community based browser engine that remains up to date with all the updates to the html, css, and javascript standards would require an immense amount of infrastructure and monetary backing. Essentially Firefox's Spidermonkey is the closest we have.
I'd be curious if Mozilla could somehow get enough funding without Google or Microsoft or any other big tech corporate funding/influence and still keep up to date with new features and security patches. Doesn't seem likely though.
Librewolf on Linux Desktop with NoScript, Chameleon, etc. Mull on Android mobile with similar. (Both are firefox based).
I'm on Graphene OS for mobile though, which necessitates the use of Google's Pixel and uses a hardened Chromium based browser called Vanadium. Main dev has criticized Firefox for being insecure in the past, but still use Mull anyway...
@z3rOR0ne @wAkawAka How about @servo ?
#Servo aims to provide an independent, modular, embeddable web rendering engine, allowing developers to deliver content and applications using #webstandards. Servo is written in #Rustlang, taking advantage of the memory safety properties and concurrency features of the language.
Crowdfunding page:
https://crowdfunding.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/projects/servo