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Re:Leaving Mozilla by bluebarbet on Saturday June 13, 2026 @05:22AM (#48515231)
Librewolf, like all the forks, free-rides on the upstream work of paid Mozilla staff in order to be secure. It's a band-aid, not a solution.
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Re:Leaving Mozilla by 2b3a51 on Saturday June 13, 2026 @05:40AM (#48515347)
But perhaps the existence of the forks tells the Mozilla management something?
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Re:Leaving Mozilla by classified on Saturday June 13, 2026 @06:26AM (#48515680)
Band-aids like this have existed for many years, plenty of time for Mozilla to listen. And in all that time, they never had the idea to make the band-aids redundant.
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Re:Leaving Mozilla by hnlmorg on Saturday June 13, 2026 @10:08AM (#48517513)
WebKit (as used by Safari) was a fork of kHTML (written by the KDE team). And Google forked WebKit. Now we have dozens of Blink forks including Microsoft’s own browser: Blink.

I think it’s pretty safe to assume that forking the code is a low incentive for change

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