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this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2026
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Yep. "We value morals, but we value money from the US gov and the MAGA crowd the most ππ"
Hey Firefox how'd you get that blue checkmark?
Oh.
not shocking considering the new ceo is an ai bro
also not shocking>? this
FWIW no donation money to the Mozilla org goes to Firefox development. It goes to everything else, including the AI bro projects and AI company handouts.
https://grantedai.com/news/mozilla-1-million-democracy-ai-cohort-march-deadline
i know; i originally donated to mozilla specifically because i liked their goal of turning a page against the hate and bigotry on the internet, especially with mozilla.social but they got rid of that with their latest ceos.
they don't understand that i WANT a progressive company working to build a non ai browser AND make the internet community a better place.
Yeah, Mozilla Org is the non-profit and Mozilla Corp is the for-profit that develops Firefox and gives their CEO's million dollar golden parachutes. Unfortunately these days even the org is overrun with AI bros.
That honestly suck considering they are Google's pet with the search engine agreement.
Very much agreed. I don't think Firefox should take some high moral stance and reject Google money, but they need to develop alternative ways of getting funded, and cut irrelevant spending! That way they can actually start loosening Google's stranglehold on them
The internet is changing again
translation: it is more socially acceptable to be fash now, so weβre courting the fash now
This is the scummy part! Their "reintroduction" reads like a dogwhistle.
I wish they could just find a neutral wealthy benefactor so they wouldn't have to worry about pleasing people and just focus on making a better browser for all
neutral
wealthy
You can only pick one
Sadly yeah, and what I meant by that was doing things to appease a smaller number of users or things to grow their user base while they lose long time users, like adding AI features, adding search engines that don't respect privacy, all that stuff
that wouldn't matter since they have an ai bro as ceo who loves everything about ai.
:( why does everything have to go rotten, been using firefox since it was firebird, hate to let it go but that is bad news
Uh...
Firefox is fashtech now?
all corporations either are or want to be.
Yeah the only reason a company is not interested in fascism is because they're jelly they're not included in the money grift. And then they only desperately want to be included.
ALL
Waterfox is an offshoot of Firefox that started from strong moral disagreements within the company
librewolf too
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This is what I use on my phone. I'm in love with Zen for desktop though. Love what they change Firefox into sort of Arc browser before Arc went AI slop machine.
Yep!
I'm using a fork, so fuck you very much.
What's a good Firefox alternative for Android?
Fennec
well I do aggree, but it is a soft fork of Firefox so if Firefox dies then fennec dies as well.
Firefox is big enough that there might be enough traction to create a proper fork, if Firefox ever goes down. Though, technically the same is also true for Chrome, since the system behind it is also open source. It's just a lot of work. There's also still Webkit around. That one is often used for web-tech apps for desktop & of course Apple, so i wonder if it's feasible to make a real browser out of that. Midori comes to mind, idk if they still use it.
Firefox won't die because its donors (Google and corporate friends) won't let it... But if it does, it'll be Google's call. Nothing you or I can do about it.
I personally use Ironfox
The internet is dead, long live the internet!
Last time I looked it was still AS talking BGP.