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Firefox - you mean Mozilla with its dozens of scandals, money squandering, that is entirely dependent on Google financing (and now endorses its AI tool within the browser). There are some good Chromium and Firefox forks. There is nothing else much left.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/firefox-deletes-...

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I wounder how long would they last if they would have to do browser engine development themselves.

Until Ladybird is ready (which may take years) for all the Mozilla’s scandals there is not a lot better around.

Fair enough.

I meant more in a technical sense & openness.

They could flip the switch on that in a second after a phone call from Google (or more likely a personal visit with no potential recording devices around.) We could call it Manifest V4, "the compromise."

We really stuck it to those bastards at Google, and they conceded that we could continue allowing the interfaces that efficiently enable adblocking, and still be conformant with the new Manifest V4. We'd just have to put every new add-on through a simple process to make sure that they weren't abusing that privilege.

I mean, they long ago disabled unsigned add-ons in everything but developer nightly iirc? It can't even be considered an entire step to say that only add-ons signed by Mozilla will run; more like a slight lean.

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