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by Fredkin 745 days ago
Firefox receives funding from google.

In 2022, 81% of Mozilla's revenues were derived from Google.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Google

Use LibreWolf instead.

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> Use LibreWolf instead.

What's the point when it's literally just a reskinned firefox? What's keeping Firefox alive is also keeping all of its derivatives alive.

Derivatives of Firefox can take or leave features that Mozilla is pushing. For example Pocket isn't in LibreWolf. Google and Mozilla have less influence over what derivatives do - well that's my hope anyway. It's still not ideal. Can you recommend any alternatives that have good fingerprinting resistance and are not Chromium / Gecko / WebKit based?
Having Firefox alive helps Google beat the monopoly charges, presumably
That is very likely the one reason, which means that although Google needs Mozilla to stay afloat for their "See, your honor, we're not a monopoly!" ridiculous argument, they still have a huge leverage to literally force Mozilla to keep Firefox behind.

I wonder if everyone calling Firefox as "Google Firefox" could somehow compromise that narrative.

> they still have a huge leverage to literally force Mozilla to keep Firefox behind.

I wonder if that was part of the reason Mozilla chose to lay off the entire R&D team that was working on their next-generation browser engine that would solve some pretty long-standing issues?

Anyway, building a browser is hard and expensive work, and it was probably a mistake to move away from getting one in a box at Best Buy for $50.