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I don’t understand how changing browsers accomplishes anything? It’s clear the leadership doesn’t care about Firefox. You’re just making their case for them that Firefox isn’t worth the effort.

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I do plan to stick with Firefox in the meantime until the project itself degrades. But it's time to see what else is out there so that I begin supporting another browser with a viable future, in the case the Firefox might not be around anymore or might not meet the criteria I have for a browser.

Does Mozilla make anything that people use, other than Firefox?

println!("Perhaps Rust?");

I use their HTML documentation quite a lot while developing for Chrome.

Thunderbird, and as mentioned below, their HTML documentation is really good.

Oh right, that's actually my email client! But didn't Mozilla try to kill it a few years ago? Ah yes

https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-scraps-thunderbird-dev...

> Mitchell Baker, the Mozilla Foundation's chair, said on Friday that Thunderbird 's users seemed happy with the program being the way it is.

A pattern seems to emerge.

It prepares one for the almost inevitable moment when they will start compromising on their standards in order to get more revenue.

Spoiler: the only other privacy game in town is Safari. Brave has been caught doing some controversial things and Chrome is the thing everyone was running away from in the first place. Edge was found to have one of the worst possible telemetry from all browsers.

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