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I posted a message saying we should support Mozilla. I have read through this thread and now I am doubting the leadership of Mozilla. In particular, I am annoye
by maps7 6y ago
I posted a message saying we should support Mozilla. I have read through this thread and now I am doubting the leadership of Mozilla. In particular, I am annoyed that I ever donated to Mozilla when the execs are taking home MILLIONS. Is there any browser to support or use that is not run by millionaires?
- Santosh83 6y agoThere are many many shallow forks of Firefox, Chromium or Webkit out there. Some prominent examples are SeaMonkey, Pale Moon, Basilisk, QuteBrowser, Falkon, Gnome Web, IceCat, Ungoogled-Chromium. They're all superficial forks though. Without progress on the core engine etc upstream, they won't be able to keep up for long. On the other hand, there is little reason to think any of the three major engine efforts (Gecko, Webkit, Blink) are going to stumble any time soon.
- The-Compiler 6y agoqutebrowser, Falkon and Gnome Web aren't forks of anything, they use a well-defined and maintained API. For qutebrowser and Falkon, that's QtWebEngine, which you could call a fork of Chromium I guess - but it's more of a stripped-down Chromium with a stable API on top and a couple of patches. QtWebEngine is maintained by multiple people employed full-time by the Qt Company: https://wiki.qt.io/QtWebEngine https://wiki.qt.io/QtWebEngine For Gnome Web, that's WebKitGTK, which is an official WebKit port (i.e. part of the upstream WebKit repository maintained by Apple and others) and also has been actively maintained for the past 13 years or so.