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Firefox has already been forked multiple times because of decisions from Mozilla, see [Pale Moon](https://www.palemoon.org/ https://www.palemoon.org/) or [Water
by NewEntryHN 5y ago
Firefox has already been forked multiple times because of decisions from Mozilla, see [Pale Moon](https://www.palemoon.org/ https://www.palemoon.org/) or [Waterfox](https://www.waterfox.net/ https://www.waterfox.net/). Few people use those forks, for the simple reason that what has been removed from Firefox is not game-changing enough to mandate an exodus. However I agree that removing support for uBlock Origin will surely be another story.
- celdon25 5y agoJust wanted to leave a reminder here that low user count does not necessarily imply low utility. The goal of a fork isn't to become the next monopoly.
- skinkestek 5y ago> Few people use those forks, for the simple reason that what has been removed from Firefox is not game-changing enough to mandate an exodus. This is not the reason for me at least to not use it as my main browser. I recently tested and the speed is good and it is absolutely wonderful to have true full fledged extensions and complete themes. My reason is that I'm worried if their security is good enough. If we could somehow be sure about that I'd actually happily leave modern Firefox behind for it. Personally I'm hoping for someone to create a patch set and bulld binaries based on it to re-enable the old stuff, not by letting extensions muck around in the internals but by providing defined extensions points like: - enable / disable tab bar - provide your own tab rendering code - etc