So I know the latest FF version was a major bump, and it's bound to have big issues. I haven't looked at the diff/changelog, but 140-140.0.2 has been a dumpster fire of instability for me. I'm a walking, talking, edge case, but things that used to work, that suddenly become unstable and stop working is a bummer.
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They don't care about building good software anymore from what I can tell. I had to give up on Mozilla.
Yeah. Right now, I personally can't trust the chromium codebase. There are still too many features I don't know how to turn off (or ensure are turned off) that Mozilla explicitly refuses to implement for privacy reasons. I wish Forks of Firefox were able to keep up with the bugs so this didn't happen, but yeah.
The difficult part with "privacy" based forks is they focus on keeping as much convenience as they can. I don't need or want convenience, I need less surface area. I don't want HID or serial port access, I've never needed and never will. I don't need or want web filesystem support. Stuff like that. I want a fork where that code is completely removed.
I'm not sure how complex it would be, but I'd like a bare bones browser that can have components added like a plugin if desired. I don't need or want a lot of shit in browsers. Probably a lot more stuff than I'm even aware of.
Agreed. I think I spend more time turning shit off, or adding extensions to turn shit off than I do actually using these features.
I've wished for that for years. Lol Gave up on it. I was happy to see more teams work with the base browser though. Such as Mullvad. I'd be extra happy if Tor just took over the entire thing and made current Tor a profile or something. I don't know exactly what I'm talking about. Browsers are complicated and beyond my scope. I'm sure running their development is hard too. LadyBird seems like a cool promise. Maybe we will end up with an open, neutral base at some point
