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Google spent $26 billion to hide this phone setting from you (www.washingtonpost.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I hope not. Not only do I not want to see Google annihilate Firefox but I also don't want to see the further "appification" of every website. It's ridiculous that I need to install an app to pay for parking when I'm visiting a city and will only use the app once. It's not even Bluetooth enabled so it's not like it can be used offline if you don't have a connection.

The fact that Firefox is open source gives me some hope that the community could take the reins and continue development if Mozilla did run into financial trouble.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's already some forks of Firefox.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Aren't they realistically more "patches" than forks? They continue to track the Firefox codebase as it updates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah you could be right, I'm not sure about the specifics, just that there's other versions of it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

LibreWolf for example removes the telemetry but is ultimately still updating to each new Firefox version. In the event of Mozilla going under, some project would need to pick up the maintenance of the actual browser core that the "forks" are pulling updates from.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

In the event of Mozilla going under

Far less likely than Microsoft "going under" but sure, let's pretend that's a giant concern for the users.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

That is horrible but it need not be. Parking paying apps could be federated: you pick the app you like and can pay anywhere*.

Personally I have never used a parking app because they are proprietary and thankfully I live in country where many still uses coins.