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[–]JasonCarswell 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Not to mention they've infiltrated and corrupted Firefox, their Chrome browser competition.

I would wager that practice does not stop there.

[–]Drewski[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I know Mozilla is paid to use Google search as the default engine, but that's easy enough to change. How have they infiltrated and corrupted Firefox?

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Firefox is open source.

It's not only been alleged, but admitted and confirmed.

There have been posts here on SaidIt.

https://saidit.net/s/all/search?q=Firefox+Google

[–]happysmash27 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Not to mention they've infiltrated and corrupted Firefox, their Chrome browser competition.

Is that why Firefox has gotten so much worse, becoming a lame Chrome clone instead of the powerful customisable browser it used to be? I came to Firefox for the powerful customisation, with XUL addons like Tab Mix Plus, the ability to add lots of extra toolbars to organise however one likes, and the ability to theme the browser to look like whatever one wants, as well as for nice features like tab groups. When Australis came, however, tab groups and the ability to add extra toolbars was removed, but the toolbars were able to be re-added again with another XUL addon, Classic Theme Restorer, and tab groups had an addon too. A couple years ago, though, it all came crashing down: they removed XUL, killing many of the addons that made Firefox great and removing the ability to re-add many of the features that made Firefox great that depended on those addons. I switched to Palemoon at this point, and found another XUL addon which is a pain to live without (and which is terribly integrated without XUL): Tree Style Tabs.

Later Palemoon started falling behind, so I switched to Waterfox, but now Waterfox is falling behind too. I really want to do something about this, because I am not willing to switch to a browser without tree style tabs, or which has the really ugly hack of having tree style tabs and a normal tab bar at the same time.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

One of the things I loved most in FireFox was a PuzzleTab thing where you could add a topbar, sidebar, and bottom bar to put a lot of your tools/icons and you could either hover over it to reveal it, click on an icon to show it or keep it visible.

I also liked having multiple rows of tabs but Tree Style vertical tabs more, as well as so many other things. Dumbed down Chrome is shit. I like simplicity but I also like complexity easily accessible. I also like to customize my extra status bars with the time, weather, etc etc etc.

Yes! Tab Groups, I'd forgotten. I left after v56 to Vivaldi for a pretty good year and innovative features, aside from the slow bloat with too many tabs, then light and fast Brave since (still with countless issues) and tree-style Sidewise that has MAJOR issues and seems to have been abandoned.

Above all and most importantly was the confidence in and reliability of Sessions for back up.

[–]H3v8 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The consequences will be obvious in a few years, when the old guards of such projects will have been totally replaced by google-approved teams.