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[–] [email protected] 48 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If Firefox goes away, I'll use Epiphany or Konquerer before I subject myself to anything that makes me view ads.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

FF has way too much groundwork laid and way too much mindshare currently (especially given the rust language and all..) If, for some reason, thousands of devs just gave up on mozilla, more would continue the path and fork it most likely.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Mozilla is the result of people giving up on Netscape. It will live!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's the result of Netscape losing to anti-trust behaviour by Microsoft and open sourcing their code as a final parting gift.

Netscape was struck down Firefox rose.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

And that's surely why it was originally called Phoenix!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I hope that's true, because I'm hearing rumblings that Mozilla is moving away from it as their core project.