My Thoughts on the Firefox situation
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I’ve used Firefox since it was Mosaic, and when it was called Netscape Navigator.
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I agree that the removal of the promise not to sell your data is bad, and the new EULA is bad.
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I worry about the long term product development of Firefox
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I question the role of the fork in development, meaning I don’t know how much they can do on their own without Firefox proper.
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Firefox sync is an important feature to me. I’m open to self-hosting but not losing it.
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I’m open to new browsers for the future, but this is a huge effort.
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Brave is NOT the solution. No way, no how.
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We need an alternative to Webkit based browsers.
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Firefox will have lessons for us about FLOSS sustainability. We don’t know what those lessons are yet.
#Mozilla #Firefox
@peribotsarah@babka.social
I’ve self-hosted services for decades and my positions are slowly evolving as the needs, tech stack, and political landscape change. I’m more than happy to share my thoughts with you on this.
As this relates to Babka… there’s for sure a component of wanting to be sure the site has extremely high availability, reliability, and for sure in essentially the expense of running the site vs its income and its use.
@serge@babka.social
what about syncing the Browser profile folder? works for me Quote sufficient for Firefox. should be adaptable.
@peribotsarah@babka.social
@jakob_thoboell@kirche.social
How does that work on Android?
@peribotsarah@babka.social
@serge@babka.social
I have not tried. For Kombination of different OS Desktop systems it works without trouble.
@peribotsarah@babka.social
@serge@babka.social Yes!
What I said is more of an observation that the general availability of tech is toxic, there are ways out of it, and you and I can probably navigate it Better than Most.
Actually, Kudos to you (and many Fedi-hosts) for making that escape possible for more than yourself.
I’m much more than happy to hear what you have to say on this!