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This is probably an unpopular opinion but I think that if all this effort went in to improving Firefox, or a fork of Firefox if the goal is to totally de-Google

This is probably an unpopular opinion but I think that if all this effort went in to improving Firefox, or a fork of Firefox if the goal is to totally de-Google it, then that wouldn't be such a problem and it would overall be healthier for the web. I don't really understand the purpose of this titanic software engineering effort just to avoid... a default search engine setting?

lproven 9d ago
> if all this effort went in to improving Firefox, or a fork of Firefox Someone tried to instigate that on Mastodon recently. It didn't work. https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/116959309031485270 https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/116959309031485270 Spread the word. Contact the developers, ask them. The forks I know about: • Waterfox -- https://www.waterfox.com/ https://www.waterfox.com/ • Librewolf -- https://librewolf.net/ https://librewolf.net/ • Floorp -- https://floorp.app/ https://floorp.app/ • Zen browser -- https://zen-browser.app/ https://zen-browser.app/ • Mullvad -- https://mullvad.net/en/browser https://mullvad.net/en/browser • Konform -- https://codeberg.org/konform-browser https://codeberg.org/konform-browser Others: GNU IceCat – https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ Mercury – https://thorium.rocks/mercury https://thorium.rocks/mercury I fear it would be hard to get some of the earlier forks on board... these are all based on much older codebases: • Palemoon -- https://www.palemoon.org/ https://www.palemoon.org/ • Basilisk – https://www.basilisk-browser.org/ https://www.basilisk-browser.org/ • Seamonkey – https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ https://www.seamonkey-project.org/