It’s time to come back to Firefox. The Internet you loved is still here.
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Your favorite meme icons from the early 2000s are back, and they have one question: what happened to the internet? Somewhere along the way, big tech started ...
  • Swordgeek@lemmy.caEnglish
    225·
    17 天前

    Then take out the AI, the telemetry, and the bloat like it was the mid-2000s.

    Oh wait -that’s what Waterfox did.

    • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
      61·
      16 天前

      Looks like waterfox went full AI. Also a VAST majority of the firefox like clones/forks/etc still rely on the Mozilla team for interop and maintenance. Some even pull down the same libraries maintained by the team. Like Librewolf in particular pulls a LOT from firefox main code and waterfox pulls from libraries.

        • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
          41·
          16 天前

          I mean the code. Like ime seeing a HUGE Agents folder right at the beginning of the project. And the git commits.

  • kbal@fedia.io
    10·
    17 天前

    Strange but probably true: Somewhere in the world, there are people who feel nostalgia for the Annoying Orange.

  • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
    8·
    16 天前

    Still using it. Its great. Ublock origin my love. WebtoEpub has saved a LOT of sites from destruction. Thres a metric ton of extensions I love to use.

    • orlyowl@piefed.caEnglish
      1·
      16 天前

      WebtoEpub has saved a LOT of sites from destruction.

      Sounds interesting, but I’m not quite getting the likely use case. Can you give a little more info?

  • kabutor@startrek.websiteEnglish
    4·
    16 天前

    Been using Firefox since was called Phoenix, but some months ago I moved away to Librewolf, and I’m not going back, no matter the ad campaign. I feel my privacy is at risk, and I feel like I was a product that they need to monetize. No thanks

  • Arghblarg@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    16 天前

    Man it’s too bad they didn’t get Rick Astley in there too. Could’ve licensed the song too.

  • RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    54·
    16 天前

    Thanks, I hate it. Not the browser, but the ad. I don’t want stale nostalgia. I want a modern, secure, privacy-oriented ecosystem and tools which help taking the internet back from the claws of megacorporations. Tools which help building new communities and resilience to corporate enshittification. The ad just rubs me entirely the wrong way.

      • 6️⃣9️⃣4️⃣2️⃣0️⃣@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        16 天前

        I pose the question not because it’s hard to answer, but because the answer should make you think of follow-up questions.

        • Why do they want market share?
          • To make more money.
        • How does a web browser make money?
          • By exploiting its users.
        • How are they exploiting users?

        These are just some examples. I’m sure you can think of more.

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          16 天前

          In a capitalist system, you advocate to never trust anyone under any circumstance. “To make more money” can just mean putting food on tables rather than be damning evidence of malfeasance. We already know for sure that Google is worse, so what do you suggest we do with your comment?