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I've asked multiple times to all the brave sympathizers about "why not fork firefox, put your shnazzy customization and call it a day. By lapping up to chromium, you are only helping Google regardless of what search engine you use"

And more often than not the response has been "well we did investigate Firefox but working with it was pita so we went with easiest option"

Shit dude. You want to start a business so at least do the right thing.

If there are more Firefox forks, like there are chromium forks today, that would normalize Firefox because currently chromium is the de facto web standard.



How is propping up Firefox's market share and slowing down their own development the right thing to do as a business?

If Firefox wants to have a competitive market share they should actively compete instead of begging people to increase their market share.


I love how the 'right thing to do' is not the same as the 'right thing to do as a business.'

One is actually the right thing to do. The other is how to make more money faster and quicker.


They can be aligned. Faster feature development both provides more utility to the users and attracts new users which is good for the business.




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