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Because, with the recent decisions re Thunderbird & Firefox, the only browsers that were designed with the intelligent and free user in mind aren't getting better - they're actually getting worse. Also, EFF has been running articles about DRM lately. It's not that we're only stoking the fire now... It's that they are writing about it again.

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> Thunderbird & Firefox, the only browsers that were designed with the intelligent and free user in mind

That's not remotely close to being true.

some examples, por favor?

Vivaldi?

Vivaldi is (a) new; (b) based on Chromium; and (c) not actually open source. (I use both Vivaldi and Firefox, but not Chrome.)

Historically, Firefox has been the main user-entered browser, but not the only one. Especially if you include forks.

Vivaldi also shares a design lineage with Opera 12 and previous, in terms of who the designers are/were. When we lost Opera, I think we lost the open web in a lot of ways. As much as Opera was a closed-source proprietary engine etc. browser, it stood out against the background of the larger Web giants. When they folded and gave in to Google, I was horrified.

Still, the loss of a Community Firefox is a bad thing.

elinks?

As a long-time FF user I should be flattered, but it seems like a tough claim to back up. I don't see any design emphasis in Firefox on 'intelligent' users; 'free' is a little easier to believe, in the sense that the other major browsers are very tightly bound to certain OSes and/or their creators (IE/Edge on Win, Safari on OSX, Chrome on, well, lots of things). Chrome seems just as likely to appeal to the intelligent user (if their smarts run toward fast browsing), though given all its telemetry (e100.net etc.) it isn't perhaps the most free...

background?

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