Comment on "It’s time to come back to Firefox. The Internet you loved is still here." - Firefox brings together people from famous internet memes in the 2000s in a new marketing push

• solxix@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The forks will not be just fine because they’re dependent on Mozilla for the new features and highly important security updates.

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  • the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨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.

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    • chloroken@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Forks and downstream are very different. Showing your ass here.

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    • solxix@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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• otter@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨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

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