• The Octonaut@mander.xyz
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    1 day ago

    it’s got settings

    Well yeah, Librewolf is basically nothing but settings.

    Firefox settings.

    Confuses me no end when people rage against Mozilla and then recommend a product that cannot exist without Mozilla.

    • Nindelofocho@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      Whats confusing about it? People took something that was going bad and made it good again. Thats the benefit of open source. Even if Mozilla goes closed source the already existing forks can continue

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        7 hours ago

        Even if Mozilla goes closed source the already existing forks can continue

        Theoretically yes, practically no. Maintaining a secure modern web engine that’s up to date with - and a part of - setting web standards is something that costs tens of millions per year. Sometimes this even spills into the hundreds of millions.

        Random fork projects don’t have the resources to do that.

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      10 hours ago

      A software has roughly three parts: core functionality, UI, default settings. Zen does the UI part and default settings different.