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We need to be able to directly fund Firefox instead of all the other mozilla stuff. https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/ability-to-donate-money-to-the-firefox-

by ptman 3y ago

We need to be able to directly fund Firefox instead of all the other mozilla stuff. https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/ability-to-donate-money-to-the-firefox-development-team-directly/idi-p/198 https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/ability-to-donate-money...

kikokikokiko 3y ago
We need to donate to a new team/foundation/corporation, anyone at all, that would fork Firefox and continue it's development. I would never, ever, give a single cent to the Mozilla Foundation. It's current form is not focused on what the users of it's products want or need. The ideology Mozilla loves to shove in it's users faces is just the cherry on top. I've been using Firefox ever since the early 2000s, and even developed some addons for it on the good old days. Nowadays I just use it while clipping my nose, to avoid giving even more power to the Devil incarnate itself that is Google.
- bjord 3y ago
  Just for record, I'm not with you as far as the anti-mozilla stance. That being said, what's stopping you (or anyone) from funding a team that continues to work on firefox within the same fork, rather than potentially duplicating their work? Is your impression that mozilla's ideology would prevent that other team from doing meaningful work or going in a direction that you believe they need to go?
  - evilpie 3y ago
    Igalia is regularly contracted to work on new Firefox features, so this is already happening.
- input_sh 3y ago
  I can think of like four Firefox forks. In no particular order: Pulse browser, Waterfox, LibreWolf, Pale Moon. Which of those are you currently donating to?
- aleph4 3y ago
  So you just hate everyone? Got it.
mrguyorama 3y ago
Just like chrome is it's own charity organization that only does things that are good for the open internet right? No? We only have this requirement of the only browser not tied to an advertising organization? Huh, that's very strange....

by ptman 3y ago

kikokikokiko 3y ago

We need to donate to a new team/foundation/corporation, anyone at all, that would fork Firefox and continue it's development. I would never, ever, give a single cent to the Mozilla Foundation. It's current form is not focused on what the users of it's products want or need. The ideology Mozilla loves to shove in it's users faces is just the cherry on top. I've been using Firefox ever since the early 2000s, and even developed some addons for it on the good old days. Nowadays I just use it while clipping my nose, to avoid giving even more power to the Devil incarnate itself that is Google.

bjord 3y ago
Just for record, I'm not with you as far as the anti-mozilla stance. That being said, what's stopping you (or anyone) from funding a team that continues to work on firefox within the same fork, rather than potentially duplicating their work? Is your impression that mozilla's ideology would prevent that other team from doing meaningful work or going in a direction that you believe they need to go?
- evilpie 3y ago
  Igalia is regularly contracted to work on new Firefox features, so this is already happening.
input_sh 3y ago
I can think of like four Firefox forks. In no particular order: Pulse browser, Waterfox, LibreWolf, Pale Moon. Which of those are you currently donating to?
aleph4 3y ago
So you just hate everyone? Got it.

mrguyorama 3y ago

Just like chrome is it's own charity organization that only does things that are good for the open internet right? No? We only have this requirement of the only browser not tied to an advertising organization? Huh, that's very strange....