Here is a old blog post entitled, "Don't abandon Mozilla Firefox just yet": https://blog.jeaye.com/2017/12/16/firefox/
The cancer that started with selling the search engine slot, expanded when they purchased Pocket, has now become a plan to sell advertising in the location bar. Mozilla has completed its transformation into a full blown advertising agency, and they have never even asked me for a donation (since the for-profit era of Netscape Navigator). I've been trying to give Mozilla slack for years, but there isn't even an option to give feedback anymore. Look how they got out ahead of the negative feed back this time, immediately terminating the debate with "This is a bug tracker, not a discussion forum (open 1 day ago / closed 1 day ago)" This from Mozilla who literally /invented/ the notion of tracking software issues with public discussion forums when they produced Bugzilla. Obviously it was a mistake to cut them so much slack instead of backing the projects growing up in the weeds. What other adware is allowed in the primary repository of the Linux distributions? I suspect Firefox would be kicked if there were viable alternatives. Can anyone point me to a browser project for Linux (and if possible Android) that is not controlled by a totalitarian state (Opera) or an advertising agency (Firefox, Chromium)? Is there a serious project (under MPL, or better MIT, BSD, etc.) which can gain momentum if we (desperate) users are willing to make the donations? -- Anthony Carrico
