(08-01-2024, 08:22 AM)harm_less Wrote:(07-01-2024, 09:41 PM)nzoomed Wrote: I must be one of the 2.6%You, and me too. I also use Thunderbird for emails.
https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/ne...relevance/
The info on Librewolf in the link looks interesting. What's your take on it, and as it's a Firefox "fork" does that mean it will cease if Firefox does?
Librewolf indeed looks a good browser.
After seeing the google lawsuit over them harvesting peoples data, (see https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67838384) I think alternatives to Chrome, Edge and anything else by big tech will rise in popularity. If anything, having competition or forks to firefox will force their devs to innovate further.
The key is getting the masses to adopt alternatives, most people are oblivious and use what's convenient.
Chrome adopted fast simply because google was nagging everyone to download chrome without even understanding what it is, so many people I see dont even know the difference between what a browser is and what google is.
We are in the same situation where we were at the end of the 90s where IE stripped netscapes marketshare, quite a shame, because initially Firefox was quickly becoming the dominant browser until Google introduced Chrome.
Palemoon is another popular fork of firefox to check out which was based on their older version which was more compatible with the existing extentions.