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		AshleysBrain 7 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: This Month in Ladybird – August 2026 This is probably an unpopular opinion but I think that if all this effort went in to improving Firefox, or a fork of Firefox if the goal is to totally de-Google it, then that wouldn't be such a problem and it would overall be healthier for the web. I don't really understand the purpose of this titanic software engineering effort just to avoid... a default search engine setting?
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lproven 7 days ago [–]

> if all this effort went in to improving Firefox, or a fork of Firefox

Someone tried to instigate that on Mastodon recently. It didn't work.

https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/116959309031485270

Spread the word. Contact the developers, ask them.

The forks I know about:

• Waterfox -- https://www.waterfox.com/

• Librewolf -- https://librewolf.net/

• Floorp -- https://floorp.app/

• Zen browser -- https://zen-browser.app/

• Mullvad -- https://mullvad.net/en/browser

• Konform -- https://codeberg.org/konform-browser

Others:

GNU IceCat – https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/

Mercury – https://thorium.rocks/mercury

I fear it would be hard to get some of the earlier forks on board... these are all based on much older codebases:

• Palemoon -- https://www.palemoon.org/

• Basilisk – https://www.basilisk-browser.org/

• Seamonkey – https://www.seamonkey-project.org/

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