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Because Mozilla has proven time and again to be a false friend to the foss community. Look at thunderbird and xul, not to mention the fact that they basically e

Because Mozilla has proven time and again to be a false friend to the foss community. Look at thunderbird and xul, not to mention the fact that they basically ended up copying chromium..

jakub_g 5y ago
"X is not pope/saint-like, so I will stick with Y which is openly a villain"
pxeger1 5y ago
Unlike Google, who are consistently great? I don't think so.
- p2t2p 5y ago
  Unlike Apple’s Safari that consistently introduces privacy related features and provides excellent battery life.
  - Jiocus 5y ago
    Only to macOS/iOS users. Edit: Who can afford paying a premium for privacy (if one agrees with the parent assumption, that is).
jevoten 5y ago
Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Especially since the alternatives are openly hostile to FOSS.
- mixedCase 5y ago
  How is Brave openly hostile to FOSS?
  - jevoten 5y ago
    My apologies. I had only Microsoft's and Google's browsers in mind.
  - SahAssar 5y ago
    Brave might not be FOSS-hostile, but they are still a re-badged chromium with some crypto-stuff on top.
    - tata71 5y ago
      More like to the side. Chromium is leading the market by a wide margin in security. Forking Chromium is the only current viable way forward.
    - mixedCase 5y ago
      They maintain a more optimized adblocker, fingerprinting protection, integrate the ungoogled-chromium patches without breaking the Chrome extension store nor Widevine, and they offer native IPFS integration. I disable all the crypto integration and use it because it's precisely "chromium without google services but still usable", all while remaining open source and focusing on privacy, something that Edge, Vivaldi and Opera do not.
sascha_sl 5y ago
Or recently, the post-install page having a nagging animated button to please buy Mozilla VPN.