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I'm just hoping Mozilla/Firefox survives this. I'm not sure that any other mature, non-chromium based web browser exists.
by _QrE 1y ago
I'm just hoping Mozilla/Firefox survives this. I'm not sure that any other mature, non-chromium based web browser exists.
- ArinaS 1y agoWhat you're looking for is Pale Moon/any other Goanna-based browser. They'll probably the only ones which will survive in this fight.
- asadotzler 1y agoThey die the minute Firefox developers stop feeding them security fixes on the regular. They are not developing, they're packaging. If real development stops at Mozilla, if Gecko dies at Mozilla, there isn't a volunteer project on the planet that could keep it alive in Pale Moon or any other Mozilla derivative.
- ArinaS 1y agoThey're not using Mozilla's security fixes or browser engine. Pale Moon is a hard fork, so it is developed, and developed independently from Mozilla's Firefox. Also check out this page - https://www.palemoon.org/info.shtml https://www.palemoon.org/info.shtml.
- debugnik 1y agoGoanna has been rebased over Gecko several times because they keep falling behind, hasn't it? So it's more of a periodically-hard fork.
- ArinaS 1y agoThey didn't "rebase" it though - just some code from Gecko was merged into it. And as I understand from https://www.palemoon.org/history.shtml https://www.palemoon.org/history.shtml, there were two merges - first with Firefox 38 ESR, and second with Firefox 52 ESR.
- debugnik 1y agoThanks for the details! I was speaking from memory, but I see the last merge was quite a while ago. That somewhat increases my trust on the project then, although I'm not sure I'd ever trust a minor browser fork without further security assurances.