You’re severely underestimating the amount of work open source maintainers put into those things.
Which Firefox fork is a hard fork? Which Firefox fork has a hard fork of the Gecko engine?
As far as I know, all Firefox forks are dependent on the Gecko engine, and basically have Firefox as upstream.
I would love for you to prove me wrong, but I don’t believe any of these projects, though with many highly dedicated contributors, would be able to maintain active development of a web browser engine that can keep up with new modern web standards.
There is a reason the Ladybird project is taking so long to materialize and has many sponsors giving significant amounts of money.
Internet shit is hard. Firefox and their forks only work because Mozilla is fucking huge and has money to develop Firefox as part of the three big industry standard web browsers. Even though Mozilla does a lot of stupid decisions and spends the majority of their money on dumb shit, and they put dumb shit into the default Firefox that they ship, it is still excellent in many ways and the very best thing we have as a FOSS web browser. I encourage everyone to use Firefox with hardening or one its forks.
I agree with the article, and people saying “Yeah let’s boycott Firefox, use [insert Firefox fork here]” every time there is a Lemmy post on a stupid decision by Mozilla are effectively not boycotting Firefox at all, or if they recommend a Chromium fork they are supporting Chrome/Google, even if they don’t think they are. These forks are in essence just preconfigured and hardened Firefox/Chromium profiles with a few bells and whistles here and there.
Which Firefox fork is a hard fork? Which Firefox fork has a hard fork of the Gecko engine?
As far as I know, all Firefox forks are dependent on the Gecko engine, and basically have Firefox as upstream.
I would love for you to prove me wrong, but I don’t believe any of these projects, though with many highly dedicated contributors, would be able to maintain active development of a web browser engine that can keep up with new modern web standards.
There is a reason the Ladybird project is taking so long to materialize and has many sponsors giving significant amounts of money.
Internet shit is hard. Firefox and their forks only work because Mozilla is fucking huge and has money to develop Firefox as part of the three big industry standard web browsers. Even though Mozilla does a lot of stupid decisions and spends the majority of their money on dumb shit, and they put dumb shit into the default Firefox that they ship, it is still excellent in many ways and the very best thing we have as a FOSS web browser. I encourage everyone to use Firefox with hardening or one its forks.
I agree with the article, and people saying “Yeah let’s boycott Firefox, use [insert Firefox fork here]” every time there is a Lemmy post on a stupid decision by Mozilla are effectively not boycotting Firefox at all, or if they recommend a Chromium fork they are supporting Chrome/Google, even if they don’t think they are. These forks are in essence just preconfigured and hardened Firefox/Chromium profiles with a few bells and whistles here and there.