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    well today's #FreeSoftwareAdvent is a bit bittersweet.Back at the beginning of the month, I plotted all the projects on my remind(1) calendar, grouping various categories together. Two days ago, lynx¹, yesterday was Dillo², and today it was supposed to be #Firefox. Yet this week has been full of sad Firefox news, with them ignoring users' desires to keep AI rubbish out of the browser (or at least relegated to an optional plugin)The browser that I started using as Netscape, grew to be Communicator, that kinda became Phoenix, then shed the non-browser functions off to Thunderbird (already got mentioned³) and became Firefox. Despite the rise of Chromium/Chrome, I still use Firefox as my daily driver web-browser for the modern web (rather than the *pleasant* web where lynx & Dillo serve me much better).What used to be a "User Agent" has become something that no longer puts the *user* first. 😢 So in this time of wishes and gifts, I wish that the Firefox leadership team would take a strong look at what they're doing and change their course.⸻¹ https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@gumnos/115735221496156078² https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@gumnos/115740808963678498³ https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@gumnos/115684337296307283
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    @retrocomputing They don't, but this is not to give them an excuse for their decisions.
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    @mcc @Luminex I think that ATM Debian is using the original source code. There was a huge brouhaha a few years back about the changes (back porting of security patches) and trademark issues, but they've reverted to “plain”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian%E2%80%93Mozilla_trademark_dispute
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    @oblomov No it will probably go towards some random service they'll launch or buy and then kill off a year or two later.No money is allowed to go directly to Firefox development. That'd seemingly break some unwritten rule of our universe.Regardless, I picked up a shirt and stickers because I still like promoting Firefox and Firefox-based browsers like Zen (which is the biggest contributor to most at my work migrating -- replacing their use of Arc). The less Chromium in the world, the better.