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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by Scarbutt on Saturday August 22, 2020 @03:23PM (#24246568)
Hasn't firefox been defunded and likely to no have a future?
Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by dredmorbius on Saturday August 22, 2020 @08:10PM (#24248399)
No.

"Mozilla signs fresh Google search deal worth mega-millions"

Moz will likely pocket $400m to $450m a year between now and 2023 from the arrangement, citing internal discussions held earlier this year.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/14/mozilla_google_search...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24156813

Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by Scarbutt on Saturday August 22, 2020 @08:45PM (#24248560)
Yes. That doesn't mean that money will go to Firefox.
Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by xigency on Saturday August 22, 2020 @03:29PM (#24246612)
As far as I can tell they canned most of the Firefox teams driving new features, so that’s how I read the situation.
Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by Aeolun on Saturday August 22, 2020 @08:02PM (#24248350)
It’s interesting how those teams have finally been able to pull Firefox out of freefall, only to be sacked.
Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by viraptor on Saturday August 22, 2020 @08:04PM (#24248358)
They dropped some side teams, but the deal with Google that we thought wasn't happening actually happened a bit later. They're still good. They had future regardless, it's not the end of the world for them to run a bit more lean.
Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by submeta on Saturday August 22, 2020 @03:28PM (#24246603)
If that was the case I‘d fall back to Safari. Even though my browsing experience wouldn’t be the same anymore (using a dozen addons in Firefox).
Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by hackstack on Sunday August 23, 2020 @03:43AM (#24250298)
I believe the upcoming version of Safari will have WebExtension support, so at least there's that.