Waterfox Browser wieder unabhängig
https://linuxnews.de/waterfox-browser-wieder-unabhaengig/
#Firefox #waterfox
#waterfox
#Waterfox is compromised though https://www.ghacks.net/2021/11/04/waterfox-classic-development-will-continue-but-as-a-separate-project-from-g4/ owned by the same #surveillance company which covertly owns #startpage http://techrights.org/wiki/Startpage
I can't even switch to a new web #browser #lol.
I'm stuck with an old version of #waterfox which keeps being less and less reliable for the "modern" web: I think it's some old JavaScript support, sites like #gitlab don't even display. I can't switch to a new browser such as ungoogled #chromium or new waterfox because firstly their appimages require new version of glibc which my OS doesn't have (so much for appimage "portability" #lmao), and secondly building from source has shown beyond my strength (the combination of billions of build systems and dependencies makes compilation extremely difficult, so much for software freedom). And of course, even if I could choose any browser, there simply isn't a nice one, every single one has a considerable amount of #bullshit, and sadly the #suckless ones lack support for essential addons such as adblock and sponsorblock for #youtube.
It's irresponsible to promote #Waterfox in any way. It's covertly owned by a surveillance company, #System1 . https://www.ghacks.net/2021/11/26/waterfox-g4-0-3-1-update/ #startpage owned by the same http://techrights.org/wiki/Startpage
This has totally failed to mention that #Waterfox is owned/controlled by the same spying company that owns #Startpage https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/04/waterfox_firefox_fork/ see http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Startpage
Waterfox: A Firefox fork that could teach Mozilla a lesson
As Firefox's share of the browser market continues to slide, the Waterfox Project shows some of the ways that Mozilla is failing to listen to its users – and it's far from the only example.
Waterfox, which has just released its fourth version, came to your correspondent's attention after the arrival of Firefox 57, codenamed Quantum, which represented a major change in the program, complete with parts of the browser engine written in Rust.
(The Rust language itself started out as a Mozilla project. Despite Rust's popularity, within three years, Mozilla would also lay off members of the Rust language team.)
The problem with Firefox Quantum is that it also dropped a very significant feature: Netscape's XUL-based extension engine, added way back in 1997. To quote the Classic Addons Archive, dropping XUL meant losing "19,450 Firefox add-ons created by 14,274 developers over the past 15 years." At a stroke this crippled one of Firefox's killer features: how users could extensively customise it – unlike, say, Google Chrome.
See Waterfox: A Firefox fork that could teach Mozilla a lesson
#technology #opensource #waterfox #firefox #browser
Why are some of Moz's axed projects bigger than its flagship?
https://gadgeteer.co.za/waterfox-firefox-fork-could-teach-mozilla-lesson