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this post was submitted on 14 Aug 2026
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If it goes... I don't know what I'll do.
Go out and touch grass probably.
Get a hobby.
Perfect my molotov recipe.
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Sometimes I think it was a mistake to let the programs we primarily use to view text and images become bloated virtual machines that execute megabytes of arbitrary code with every page load.
Well, like many other things: it's not so much a "we" as it is a "them".
But maybe we should reboot the whole navigation thing?
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Happy with Librewolf. I can't imagine using my browser everyday if I don't have a good adblocker on it like uBO.
Since there are only two major browsers... one of which admittedly wears many disguises.
Not entirely correct. When we look at engines there are Blink, gecko and webkit. Unless you also count Ladybird's engine I guess.
Yes Blink is a webkit fork but it has been separate for a good while.
Isn't it crazy that Safari and thereby also Chrome/Chromium are at the heart based on work by KDE for its Konqueror?
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Alternate headline: Firefox is now the only browser worth using.
And in any case, lumping Firefox as one browser is disingenuous. There are numerous Firefox forks, just like every other major browser is in fact a Google Chromium fork.
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donated for a new cubical poster. w/e year that was. was new and better for a while.
donated 20 euro right away. HEROES.
I can't imagine using the web without firefox and ublock. Even the cookie consent popups are awful.
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I tried browsing the internet without uBlock Origin. I hated it in 5 minutes. I'm not going back to there anytime again. If your browser does not support uBlock Origin, then I am not using it.
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Nothing comes close to firefox
Worst part is google could kill Firefox at anytime because they provide a very large amount of Mozilla’s funding.
No, not really. Firefox and Gecko are crucial for Google to avoid being broken up by regulators. They have to keep Firefox alive for that reason.
True although how true the statement is, in the US at least, is in doubt given the current government leadership and direction.
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If they ever stop supporting it I will continue to use the last version to support it, any website that breaks compatibility with this Firefox version can get fucked.
That’s a significant security risk, unfortunately.
If that happens, I’d suggest a fork with a built in blocker, one that still gets security patches from upstream Firefox.
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In unrelated news, Firefox is now the dominant browser and nobody knows why.
If only that were true. To many people are addicted to google to ever give up chrome/chromium without a series of catastrophic fuckups from google.
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That will totally lead to websites not supporting or even blocking Firefox. Together with uBlock capitulating against Facebook and all those age registration nonsense, I really am scared about the future of the web.
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