That may be true but librewolf, waterfox, zen, ironfox, etc don’t have large companies with funding from google to push out features and security updates as fast as possible. Meaning that if Mozilla goes down, then all those forks go down with it unless they can find lots of contributors and funding.
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
No not really, once it’s been forked the original can die and the forks will be just fine.
solxix@pawb.social 11 hours ago
The forks will not be just fine because they’re dependent on Mozilla for the new features and highly important security updates.
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Oh yeah? Because famously netscape navigator is still around for firefox to get all of their features and security updates from.
Oh thats right it’s not.
chloroken@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
Forks and downstream are very different. Showing your ass here.
solxix@pawb.social 10 hours ago
That may be true but librewolf, waterfox, zen, ironfox, etc don’t have large companies with funding from google to push out features and security updates as fast as possible. Meaning that if Mozilla goes down, then all those forks go down with it unless they can find lots of contributors and funding.
otter@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
That’s true for a hard fork, not a downstream fork
Most of these other browsers are downstream forks. I’m not aware of any popular/reputable hard forks of Firefox