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[–] [email protected] 309 points 1 year ago (45 children)

Firefox.

Just thought I'd get that one out of the way early.

[–] BitsOfBeard 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

I love Firefox, but we need more variety in browsers and Chromium is just making it worse! There has to be a way to make building browsers simpler without everyone ending up relying on the product that was designed to ruin the free internet.

[–] namingthingsiseasy 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Yeah, the biggest problem with Firefox is that its engine is so hard to embed. Chrome has endless clones because it's just so damn easy to embed. And Firefox just has some weak forks like Librewolf.

I'd really rather see Mozilla focus on this rather than all their other stupid endeavors....

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Wish this got upvoted more tbh. The devs of Pulse Browser are trying to make an environment where making a Firefox fork would be easier, but it's not like Chromium where the engine could be easily embedded. I've also heard Second Life had to move to Chromium for their embedded browser after using Gecko and having problems with it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I find Floorp to be a really great fork

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