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Librewolf, like all the forks, free-rides on the upstream work of paid Mozilla staff in order to be secure. It's a band-aid, not a solution.
by bluebarbet 4mo ago
Librewolf, like all the forks, free-rides on the upstream work of paid Mozilla staff in order to be secure. It's a band-aid, not a solution.
- 2b3a51 4mo agoBut perhaps the existence of the forks tells the Mozilla management something?
- classified 4mo agoBand-aids like this have existed for many years, plenty of time for Mozilla to listen. And in all that time, they never had the idea to make the band-aids redundant.
- hnlmorg 4mo agoWebKit (as used by Safari) was a fork of kHTML (written by the KDE team). And Google forked WebKit. Now we have dozens of Blink forks including Microsoft’s own browser: Blink. I think it’s pretty safe to assume that forking the code is a low incentive for change