They are probably a money laundy scheme this days. I used to donate every year to Mozilla. Of course, small ammounts because Im not rich. Today they would have to beat this money from my hands.
Well, is no mistery that today the best versioins of Firefox are the non official versions like waterfox and zen.
NObody trusts mozilla anymore, specially after they turned into an add company and started paying their CEOs exorbitating ammounts, considering what was being invested in their core business (supposedly making a better browser).
I'm not familiar with Zen, but how do you reconcile that Waterfox frequently lags behind upstream Firefox in terms of security fixes? Yes, you get a perceived gain in privacy, but is that worth potentially exposing yourself to additional vulnerabilities?
> lags behind upstream Firefox in terms of security fixes
I’m not sure why this has become a thing - usually I either release Waterfox the week before ESR releases (the week the code freeze happens and new version gets tagged) or, if I’m actively working on features and they need to coincide with the next update I push, I will release on the same Tuesday the ESR releases.
You can check the GitHub tag history for Waterfox to see it’s been that way for a good while :)
Yes, you get a perceived gain in privacy, but is that worth potentially exposing yourself to additional vulnerabilities?
Speaking only for myself, and regardless of whether this is actually true (see sibling comment): yes. Absolutely. A non-privacy focused browser like Firefox has vulnerabilities/data leaks by design that are worse than hypothetical ones that I probably will not be subject to browsing my usual benign set of websites.
IT dosnet lag long, since both have pretty activity communities.
There are other variations that are a little faster in issueing the updates, but they are maintained by small teams, so they have more change of being corrupted by bullshit, specially this day and age where people take politics too damn serious.
Too be honest, except for niche uses, I just abandoned firefox. Their engine is behind, lags in sites that use too much javascript is visible, when even opening 3 or 4 tabs makes they browser lag behind.
I just keep it in my system this days to access some sites in my work computer and test UI rendering in firefox. Other than that, I had to surrender to chrome and its variations.
I would say that he have a point if movie theaters came back as the blue colar entertainment of choice. But greed studios, financing over expensive and mediocre movies like the ones James Cameron does this days killed the cinema as an viable middle lower class option, killing small street theaters in favor of over expensive multiplex rooms, so fuck James Cameron and his opinion about what Netflix should or should not be eligible.
IS funny because thanks to efforts from companies like Valve, Linux seens to finally been receiving the recognition it deserves, Rust evangelists and weirdos who claim morality superiority to the rest of mortals, are going to put everything to loose, because of this obsession of rewriting tools that actually work for many years without bigger issues, just so they can say their language is superior.
IF there was some glaring problems with tools like sudo, sort, apt, and you have a superior version, sure, go ahead. But this is clearly not the case. Sometimes the rust version is just the same, or even inferior, but people are ready to plunge into destruction just to say their distro have the latest and greatest. Its just vanity.
Maybe the conspiracy theories that big tech finance the crazy incopetent people from in position of power in open source projects that they no longer can compete, in order to destroy them from the inside, is not that far fetched.
Its fair. She done a crucial job uniting the different interests of the oposition of the venezuelan goverment/cartel.
Too bad they where so divided for so many years, that when they trully worked together to wind a election it was too late because now MAduro dont even care to steal the ellections in plain sigth and probably theres no more solution without violence.
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