lvxferre@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
Mozilla is a mythical beast. It has many heads, but no brain. As such its actions and movement are unpredictable, erratic, and… dumb.
Replacing volunteer work with a bot does not make bloody sense dammit. You’ll actually pay for the bot, and the output is worse. The Japanese localisation community already called it quits, and others will follow. And every bloody thing is unnecessarily complex, from Mozilla’s structure to what it makes, even if there’s a single piece of its software people care about - Firefox. And Firefox only survives because its redeeming quality is negative — to not be Chromium.
SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
I’m already using librewolf. As soon as I saw Firefox was using ai I figured it was time to switch.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
On an individual level, Librewolf is a good idea, because it has saner privacy defaults than Firefox; and its devs are rather good at gutting out the crap.
However, on a collective level, the problem still remains: we have exactly two options, Chromium and Firefox (note LibreWolf is a custom version of Firefox). One is from GAFAM cancer, another is from a GAFAM vassal that keeps doing dumb stuff, since it’s nothing but contained opposition.
SuperNovaStar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
True, but projects like LibreWolf are the first step to creating a true fork of Firefox that’s completely out of Mozilla’s hands.