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Re:LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, securi... by vladvasiliu on Thursday November 04, 2021 @08:49AM (#29106477)
I'd say if there's any harm, it would rather be related to money, as in Mozilla has less to bargain for their deals with their sponsors.

However, seeing how these forks are just "cosmetic", they still use the same rendering engine, which doesn't increase Google's relative user base. As far as this monopoly is concerned, all these forks are still Firefox.

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Re:LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, securi... by fsflover on Thursday November 04, 2021 @08:59AM (#29106582)
> As far as this monopoly is concerned, all these forks are still Firefox.

Not in the website statistics I guess, unless the forks present themselves as Firefox, which I doubt.

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Re:LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, securi... by Nextgrid on Thursday November 04, 2021 @09:07AM (#29106669)
To defend against browser fingerprinting you absolutely want them to present themselves as Firefox.
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Re:LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, securi... by fsflover on Thursday November 04, 2021 @09:35AM (#29106975)
Which forks are actually doing this?
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Re:LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, securi... by xanaxagoras on Thursday November 04, 2021 @11:52AM (#29108696)
The one we're discussing here, LibreWolf. Here's my UA:

`User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0`

Note that I am on Linux, so your line of thinking has some validity.

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Re:LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, securi... by brightly-salty on Thursday November 04, 2021 @12:31PM (#29109218)
Librewolf does this. It presents itself as Firefox on Windows.
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Re:LibreWolf – A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, securi... by oynqr on Thursday November 04, 2021 @12:10PM (#29108928)
This one.
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