Tree planting search engine Ecosia launched a new cross-platform browser today to increase its online footprint.

  • Soleil (she/her ♀)@beehaw.org
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    6 months ago

    I hope I’m not the only one who finds these endless Chromium forks extremely yawn-inducing. I realize that rolling your own rendering and JavaScript engines from scratch isn’t totally feasible, but Firefox is right there.

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      6 months ago

      Firefox is bleeding users, not gaining them. And I suspect with the latest move towards AI, they will lose even more.

      I support the original mission of Firefox, but the browser is just not there to compete, and that is ultimately the only thing that matters for most people.

      • jlow (he/him)@beehaw.org
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        6 months ago

        What’s the problem with the browser? I use FF as my main and Chromium (among others) for work stuff and (aside from edge cases in videcalls) I never saw a difference between any browser.