also, Firefox is seemingly basically shooting themselves in the foot. anyone have some sort of decent alternatives or whatever for Firefox, in case the inevitable happens?

@icanttellyou i use librewolf

@shroomie well it has some nonsense I just don't want to deal with for the sake of "privacy"

@icanttellyou like?

@shroomie it horribly breaks elements for the sake of preventing fingerprinting (which to me seems stupid, because one could just use how the noise was introduced to get another fingerprint element for such case)

@shroomie also, to add onto that, I do need to have view some DRM protected content (it's an evil, but I need it)

@icanttellyou @shroomie why are you even changing browsers then

@tauon @shroomie because Firefox is imploding, because of their new CEO making Firefox's direction head towards AI

@icanttellyou @shroomie no i mean like. the act of installing it. because then you’d have to import your data, configure the browser … it’s a lot of effort

@tauon @shroomie no, I mean some of these browsers aren't for me.

@icanttellyou @shroomie because you have to configure them?

@tauon @shroomie no, because they're for the type of person I'm not. I don't really care about browser fingerprinting, I just want a web browser that isn't a burning ship

@icanttellyou @tauon well if you want a browser that isn’t a burning ship, that is never likely to send your data to any ai, that may or may not have any finger prints, and that you can configure to your liking (even by turning off the safety features!), librewolf is a really good way to go

@shroomie @icanttellyou exactly

@shroomie @tauon my main concern, is that I'm unsure if it will last long if Firefox is to keep worsening in terms of leadership. Though Chromium based stuff isn't any better either

@icanttellyou @shroomie i don’t think any firefox fork would survive then, because there’d be no one source for firefox patches

maybe palemoon? but that’s shit for various reasons

@tauon @shroomie no way in hell I'd use Pale Moon

@icanttellyou @shroomie oh no neither would i i’m just saying it might survive a mozilla death

@tauon @shroomie @icanttellyou nonsense everyone would surely just use my shitty patches

(/s)

@wyatt @shroomie @icanttellyou i have been meaning to try them

@tauon @shroomie @icanttellyou to me, everything is temporary until smth servo based, but until then, firefox / firefox based it is, bc i'd rather live with some inconveniences than let google win me

@wyatt @tauon @shroomie @icanttellyou yknow what maybe you should be the next mozilla ceo

@SRAZKVT @tauon @shroomie @icanttellyou that's a terrible idea but i'd still accept the job offer

@tauon @shroomie @icanttellyou they kinda shite but also not

shite primary in that they're annoying to update and i stopped caring about passing the testing suite

@wyatt @tauon @shroomie @icanttellyou you'd be better suited than the current ceo at least

@SRAZKVT @icanttellyou @shroomie @tauon if nothing else i could say "I was CEO of mozilla for a while" on my resumé

@tauon @icanttellyou @shroomie It's also technically possible to "hot patch" most or all of them into a regular mozilla build if you unzip both the omni.ja files and grep for the original source code lines and change them wherever they appear to match my sources
(edit: and then re-zip the omni.ja files, and then purge the firefox startup cache)

@icanttellyou @shroomie @tauon (i think the --purge-caches flag will do this but my memory is hazy)

@icanttellyou @shroomie @tauon update: it's setting MOZ_PURGE_CACHES=1 (environment variable), or -purgecaches