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It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. (mastodon.world)

submitted 10 months ago by Live_Let_Live@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 47 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.

[–] phillaholic@lemm.ee 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Ross_audio@lemmy.world 26 points 10 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.

[–] webhead@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

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

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

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