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My Thoughts on the Firefox situation

  • I've used Firefox since it was Mosaic, and when it was called Netscape Navigator.

  • I agree that the removal of the promise not to sell your data is bad, and the new EULA is bad.

  • I worry about the long term product development of Firefox

  • I question the role of the fork in development, meaning I don't know how much they can do on their own without Firefox proper.

  • Firefox sync is an important feature to me. I'm open to self-hosting but not losing it.

  • I'm open to new browsers for the future, but this is a huge effort.

  • Brave is NOT the solution. No way, no how.

  • We need an alternative to Webkit based browsers.

  • Firefox will have lessons for us about FLOSS sustainability. We don't know what those lessons are yet.

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[–] serge@babka.social 1 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

@peribotsarah@babka.social

I've self-hosted services for decades and my positions are slowly evolving as the needs, tech stack, and political landscape change. I'm more than happy to share my thoughts with you on this.

As this relates to Babka... there's for sure a component of wanting to be sure the site has extremely high availability, reliability, and for sure in essentially the expense of running the site vs its income and its use.

[–] jakob_thoboell@kirche.social 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

@serge@babka.social
what about syncing the Browser profile folder? works for me Quote sufficient for Firefox. should be adaptable.
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[–] serge@babka.social 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

@jakob_thoboell@kirche.social

How does that work on Android?

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[–] jakob_thoboell@kirche.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

@serge@babka.social
I have not tried. For Kombination of different OS Desktop systems it works without trouble.
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