• sherlockandghibli@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    i still don’t get why there aren’t more firefox based browsers, i’m on librewolf, but there aren’t as many firefox based alternatives, as there are for chromium. why ?

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      1 year ago

      Ironically, Brave tried to be Firefox based in their early days but they ultimately decided Chromium would meet their needs better so they switched over.

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            1 year ago

            so, if i’m reading it right, they just kind of got into electron and sticked with it ? i get that mozilla is no saint with firefox, but… i don’t know man, i’d’ve been more likely to try to brave if it was ff based…

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              Hoping manifest v3 ends up being enough of a problem for adblockers that it pushes them to consider moving to firefox.

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                1 year ago

                Brave has already confirmed that their ad blocker isn’t implemented as an extension. It’s not affected by the changeover

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          1 year ago

          its referring to their search engine’s ai summarizer feature, i found an article when searching op’s title, quite a low effort post really since only an image was shared and no link to any article… or any description whatsoever.

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      1 year ago

      I actually use 5 different browsers:

      • Brave for work (need Chromium/Workspace integrations)
      • Mullvad for most things not work
      • LibreWolf simply because Mullvad can’t be set as default
      • Ferdium for convenient containers for sites I am regularly logged into
      • Tor for “sensitive” browsing
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        1 year ago

        I heard the same - over a decade ago.

        Not disagreeing with you, although that information might be outdated. But the fact that you don’t see, e.g. , applications that use gecko to embed web content, speaks volumes. I get the feeling that their codebase is very monolithic.

        I would really like to hear from a current or former contributor though.

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      1 year ago

      If someone can explain to me why librewolf refuses to display the specialized font characters that most websites use for necessary navigation symbols, I’ll go back to using it. But all of my research suggests it was a problem only I was having, and it genuinely made some websites unusable.