I know we have our complaints about the browser, but I liked this one :)

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      7 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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      9 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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        9 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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          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.