[kovac]

I'm absolutely with you on this. In fact, when I heard about the servo team and the CEO's salary, I stopped using Firefox. Now I mostly use qutebrowser (and Vivaldi for stuff I need more security).

I will start using Firefox when it leaves Mozilla and I'd pay a subscription for it. For me, the ideal situation is a lean team (hopefully only the devs, because I'm not paying any useless middle or high level managers a penny) start developing it for a fee. Just the browser will do, no password managers, no vpns, no nonsense. I already pay for subscriptions for those.

I've seen many here on hacker news expressing willingness to pay and the only reason that they don't is because they don't want to pay for other Mozilla nonsense but Mozilla doesn't want to open a direct channel for the community to support the Firefox team. I find this outrageous. Clearly, they are using Firefox, its very talented devs and the image of their noble fight for a private internet to fill the pockets of executives who don't know shit about engineering or the ethos of opensource software.

[unsungNovelty]

> and Vivaldi for stuff I need more security).

I agree with you on almost everything except Vivaldi. They are closed source and Firefox is 100% much more capable of supporting privacy than Vivaldi.

I have my own problems with Firefox but don't intend to stop using Firefox. They are still great. I will have to see this through I feel. lol.

Also, when you use a browser based on Blink engine (Vivaldi, Opera, Brave, Edge, Chromium) you are giving more leverage to Google at W3C. This makes FLoC kind of stuff more probable from Google.

"You need to change the browser engine as well, NOT JUST THE BROWSER." ;)

Always choose Gecko or Gecko based (like Librewolf) :)