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Icecat (like Fennec F-Droid, too) is simply a rebranding of Firefox, and so dependent on Firefox’s ongoing development. My concern is that if people keep attack
by Mediterraneo10 6y ago
Icecat (like Fennec F-Droid, too) is simply a rebranding of Firefox, and so dependent on Firefox’s ongoing development. My concern is that if people keep attacking Firefox so vehemently, that will weaken its long-term survival, and there will be less chance of the Firefox forks, too, surviving.
- caslon 6y agoI know IceCat is a rebranding of Firefox. It doesn't include the Pocket integration, and therefore is an upgrade. If Firefox dies, it honestly wouldn't be a massive loss for the open web at this point. Webkit and Blink are sufficiently divergent that we would more or less be in the same position we were when Firefox was introduced. Mozilla's been giving their executives raises while laying off the people who actually make the thing for years now, anyway. It above everything else has sabotaged its ability for long-term survival; no amount of internet rage will change the fact that Mozilla itself does not want Firefox to survive. And its forks would likely survive; Pale Moon has somehow been able to keep at roughly feature parity for ages now despite having forked off a long time ago.