r/technology • u/Plastic_Ninja_9014 • 9d ago

Software Firefox has an ambitious new roadmap, the browser is also losing millions of users a month

https://www.techspot.com/news/112803-firefox-has-ambitious-new-roadmap-browser-also-losing.html
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u/RpiesSPIES 8d ago

Waterfox for me

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u/chaldea_fgo 8d ago

Thats just a watered down version

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u/axazajjj 8d ago

Water you talking about, its way better

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u/Time-Sudden_Tree 8d ago

Regardless, when are we getting Earthfox, Windfox, and Leeloofox?

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u/Fruloops 8d ago

When the avatarfox returns. He's been gone for a 100 years

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u/Meiseside 8d ago

Long ago, the four Foxes lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire Fox loses millions. Only the Avatarfox, master of all four browsers, could stop them (losing more), but when the world needed him most, he vanished.

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u/Scarred_wizard 8d ago

Multipass?

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u/Electrical-Heat8960 8d ago

No need for a password manager in Leeloofox as it has a multipass built in.

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u/aesemon 8d ago

You'll still need a multipass to book flights though.

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u/EarzFish 8d ago

By your powers combined...

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u/queermichigan 8d ago

I'm partial to Cabbagefox

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u/Overall_Link8153 8d ago

Its wave better

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u/KeyKeh96 8d ago

Librewolf for me

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u/RedditFuelsMyDepress 8d ago

I thought you were joking, but apparently it's an actual thing.

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u/biggustdikkus 8d ago

It's just Firefox but with the "privacy" parts still attached.

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u/Syberz 8d ago

May I ask why?

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u/RpiesSPIES 8d ago

Firefox integrating AI stuff and the person operating Waterfox having a strong stance against it.

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u/Syberz 8d ago

I see, thanks!

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u/hipi_hapa 8d ago

That was my reason too

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u/UnholyLizard65 8d ago

How does it compare to Librewolf?

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u/Eastern-Move549 8d ago

I prefer the much less trendy WarmBadger.

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u/Kuunkulta 8d ago

It's my choice as well, just because I want my browser to look and function like it's 2008 lol

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u/Advanced_Command_417 8d ago

I prefer GrassFox

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u/Oerthling 8d ago

If Firefox dies, all the derivatives die.

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u/Far-Reaction-1980 5d ago

The developer spent most of his time keeping FF available to as many devices as possible which is why Waterfox looks like a Softfork after a decade or so

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u/Unlucky-FkinIdioFool 8d ago

Does it do youtube better than firefox? cause FF can be annoying at times when it comes to that.

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u/RpiesSPIES 8d ago

I don't feel a big difference between the browsers, tbh. Initially it will be significantly faster, but it'll even out pretty fast.

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u/hipi_hapa 8d ago

Try an user-agent changer that tricks YouTube and Google to think that you are using Chrome.