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@ Root Moose
2025-02-26 22:39:48
Mozilla Firefox is officially dead.
My back is officially turned.
What options remain?
For now I'm probably going to be using Gnome Web (i.e. Epiphany) for most straightforward web browsing. It works more than well enough for the stuff I do. Mobile version for Android? Does it exist? iOS?
I'll use Vivaldi for lame "modern" sites that a "simple" browser like Epiphany can't render properly. Mobile?
We'll see how far that goes. This may be less and less of an issue. The big player sites like Google, Meta, etc. are not somewhere I tend to visit.
Banking sites are a mixed bag of necessity.
I'm about to let my Amazon Prime account lapse on its yearly renewal since I won't use them any more.
At least Vivaldi seems to be a decent organization. Technology is based on Chromium though - and this is why I haven't started using it.
I will need to investigate Vivaldi's built-in adblocking since manifest v2 isn't a thing under Chromium any more.
I used to care about keeping the Mozilla rendering engine alive and relevant but now not so much.
The Firefox forks I've tried have been a mixed bag of whether their new versions follow re-enabling the privacy invasive things that Mozilla upstream does when it sends out a new version.
Time to leave them behind as well I guess.
A lot will depend on how much I miss ublock origin.
If there is a mass exodus from all the Firefox based forks then ublock may cease to exist.
There's a rant in there about pi-holing all browsers but I don't have it in me ATM.
(Posted with Epipany)
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