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It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. (mastodon.world)
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[–] TangledHyphae 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

FF has way too much groundwork laid and way too much mindshare currently (especially given the rust language and all..) If, for some reason, thousands of devs just gave up on mozilla, more would continue the path and fork it most likely.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mozilla is the result of people giving up on Netscape. It will live!

[–] Ross_audio 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the result of Netscape losing to anti-trust behaviour by Microsoft and open sourcing their code as a final parting gift.

Netscape was struck down Firefox rose.

[–] webhead 10 points 1 year ago

And that's surely why it was originally called Phoenix!

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