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I think it’s this.

Mozilla seems broken. I love Firefox and its mission, but I have no idea what Mozilla’s mission is. And they seem too beholden to Google to really make a browser good enough to threaten them.

I think we need another “true” open source group of devs who just love browsers and love writing browsers who would like to fork and work on.

I would support such a group, but I don’t think it exists and don’t know how to effectively encourage it.

But I feel like donating money to Mozilla is actually counterproducti



A large majority of Mozilla's activity is developing Firefox.

What would a browser good enough to threaten Google look like? Has anyone else produced one?




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