So, I’m staying with #Firefox, even though their CEO is tone-deaf and clumsy and destroying #Mozilla’s reputation because today I had to remove 6 extensions in #Vivaldi (my sometimes alternate browser), several of which were security-related, because of Google’s changes. I miss them. I want them back.
Bottom line. I definitely feel more secure using Firefox than a Chrome-based browser, and I won’t let my disappointment with Mozilla kill off the only alternative to Google. I will continue using Firefox.
As far as using a fork of Firefox, if Firefox doesn’t live on, neither will these forks.
You think the librewolf team is up to doing feature development and that they’ll get a seat at the standards table? Because they’re not doing that now, feature development is way more work, and if Mozilla goes the way of the dodo who knows if anyone else gets a seat at the standards table. The only other members are megacorps that don’t any incentive to let in new groups and Mozilla is only there because of history
Nobody follows the actual web standards anyway. Everybody just follows Google because all the web devs can’t be bothered to do anything but Chrome compatibility, and Google can’t be bothered with updating the actual codified standards before pushing out new shit.
This is just straight up bullshit.
Which is even worse, of course. Already it’s basically impossible for Mozilla to keep up with all of Google’s underspecified whims.
google heads whatwg. they are the web standard.