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Why hasn't Firefox been forked yet? Not a spin off like Pale Moon or Waterfox but an actual fork of the entire codebase. With only two real browser engines remaining the potential for an independent policitally neutral browser is high. I don't know why people haven't done it yet.

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People are forking. The project with currently the most traction seems to be LibreWolf: https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/

However the development of such a program takes a massive amount of work (and money), which is something Mozilla still offers and any fork probably doesn't have.

It generally doesn't make sense to do so even with the resources, because you'd be duplicating a lot of work, so the "spin-off"s prefer to keep merging the original code, just excluding changes they don't like.

Why do you think that Pale Moon is not an "actual fork" though? They've forked off a rather old version of Firefox and kept updating and maintaining it for quite some time now, barely integrating new things from newer Firefox versions.

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