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by TedDoesntTalk 1695 days ago
> casually dismissed "a few hundred thousand" users whose lives were impacted as a non-issue.

I did not intend that. My intention is this: "the cost of maintaining a browser with up-to-date standards and security is enormous". A few hundred thousand users who are unlikely to pay anything for such a browser is just financially not viable.
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I_AM_A_SMURF 1695 days ago
Just to put into perspective, maintaining a full browser (with its own engine etc) costs at minimum $300M/year (judging by the size of Chrome/Firefox/Safari's teams). That means that 300k users would need to pay more than $80 a MONTH to make that sustainable. That's insane.
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eitland 1695 days ago
Two things:

- that would go from my tool budget paid by work as soon as it is better since my browser is my second most important tool.

- as mentioned above I propose starting with a soft fork, as set of patches to be applied to the latest Firefox

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forgotmypw17 1694 days ago
You may find LibreWolf interesting:

https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/

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