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Qutebrowser isnt independent if you care that google money is involved, it uses blink. Firefox is the only even vaguely independent browser engine that keeps u

Qutebrowser isnt independent if you care that google money is involved, it uses blink. Firefox is the only even vaguely independent browser engine that keeps up at all with google.

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reitanqild 4y ago
Librewolf is a running fork of the newest Firefox with some small improvements. Unlike other forks it always has latest security updates. I use it these days and I am considering to start chipping in too (I am at my limits currently so I will have to stop something else though). But I really really want something like my old Firefox back...!
- aliqot 4y ago
  I also chip in :) Librewolf eally saved my bacon on this old laptop I keep flogging into the future.
- Arnavion 4y ago
  >Unlike other forks it always has latest security updates. Well yeah, that's how all the forks are when they start out. It's less than a year old (started in Nov 2021) so I'd be worried if it didn't keep up with upstream security patches.
  - reitanqild 4y ago
    Difference is the other forks I have been using has deliberately forked an older ESR to keep features that Mozilla axed. AFAIK Librefox re-forks from the newest FF everytime there is a release and apply their fixes as patches.
insanitybit 4y ago
> Qutebrowser isnt independent if you care that google money is involved, it uses blink. Did something change? Last I checked almost all funding for Firefox was from Google.
- bongobingo1 4y ago
  That was my impression too, signing a 3 year deal in 2020 for ~$400 to $450 million/year. > More than 90 per cent of Mozilla's funding comes from web search providers that pay for the right to be the default search engine in Firefox in their regions. According to the organization's latest financial figures [PDF], $430m of its 2018 total revenue of $451m came from those internet giants – primarily Google, we understand. These deals were due to be renewed or renegotiated by November this year. [1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/14/mozilla_google_search/ https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/14/mozilla_google_search... I believe it's listed under royalties and also receivables in the annual report, though that does not specify Google specifically, but you can look at the numbers and figure they are a large portion if the news was accurate. [2] https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2020/mozilla-fdn-2020-short-form-0926.pdf https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2020/mozilla-fdn-202...

Qutebrowser isnt independent if you care that google money is involved, it uses blink. Firefox is the only even vaguely independent browser engine that keeps up at all with google.

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reitanqild 4y ago

Librewolf is a running fork of the newest Firefox with some small improvements. Unlike other forks it always has latest security updates. I use it these days and I am considering to start chipping in too (I am at my limits currently so I will have to stop something else though). But I really really want something like my old Firefox back...!

aliqot 4y ago
I also chip in :) Librewolf eally saved my bacon on this old laptop I keep flogging into the future.
Arnavion 4y ago
>Unlike other forks it always has latest security updates. Well yeah, that's how all the forks are when they start out. It's less than a year old (started in Nov 2021) so I'd be worried if it didn't keep up with upstream security patches.
- reitanqild 4y ago
  Difference is the other forks I have been using has deliberately forked an older ESR to keep features that Mozilla axed. AFAIK Librefox re-forks from the newest FF everytime there is a release and apply their fixes as patches.

insanitybit 4y ago

> Qutebrowser isnt independent if you care that google money is involved, it uses blink. Did something change? Last I checked almost all funding for Firefox was from Google.

bongobingo1 4y ago
That was my impression too, signing a 3 year deal in 2020 for ~$400 to $450 million/year. > More than 90 per cent of Mozilla's funding comes from web search providers that pay for the right to be the default search engine in Firefox in their regions. According to the organization's latest financial figures [PDF], $430m of its 2018 total revenue of $451m came from those internet giants – primarily Google, we understand. These deals were due to be renewed or renegotiated by November this year. [1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/14/mozilla_google_search/ https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/14/mozilla_google_search... I believe it's listed under royalties and also receivables in the annual report, though that does not specify Google specifically, but you can look at the numbers and figure they are a large portion if the news was accurate. [2] https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2020/mozilla-fdn-2020-short-form-0926.pdf https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2020/mozilla-fdn-202...