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Zorin OS 17.3 replaced the default Browser from Firefox(Old) to Brave(New). (blog.zorin.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In light of Mozilla’s recent policy changes, we no longer feel assured that Firefox aligns with our commitment to protect your privacy. This prompted us to revisit the choice of default web browser in Zorin OS 17.3.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I feel like if they were gonna go chromium, they should have gone with Vivaldi. It may not be open source but it's not doing a crypto scam. Waterfox would have also been a good choice, probably better because it's Gecko.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I don't know the details, but I hope they will at least remove the VPN and crypto wallet integrations from the default installed version.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (9 children)

The distro sucks anyway. They ship really fucking old packages, even more so than Debian or other stable distros.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Not sure why they don't just ship Firefox with extensions like uBlock pre-installed

Edit: it looks like they're heavily tweaking Brave regardless. I doubt this move was for technical reasons

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

Probably someone's pet project

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Or, you know, a marketing company that develops a browser maybe bought an ad

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Wow, never recommending zorin to anyone again. Switching from gecko to chromium is a dumb move.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Y not gnome web

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Maybe this was not supposed to have been posted until April fool's day. Silly Zorin was too early for the joke.

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