this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2025
63 points (97.0% liked)
Firefox
4502 readers
165 users here now
A community for discussion about Mozilla Firefox.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I guess that's what happens when the last competitor in a space is being funded by the monopolistic option and you threaten to cut that off.
Two things I think are interesting here:
This is in line with every other minority browser out there. It's not working for them, either.
There is a remarkable lack of projects to create alternatives getting traction. Nobody is even repackaging Gecko into a different browser. I don't have the knowledge to tell if making and maintaining a browser is just that expenive and hard, but it sure seems like a reasonable explanation.
https://zen-browser.app/
There is this one, it has a lot of momentum and it's been pleasant to use so far. Firefox + fancy features
Lots of traction is a stretch.
The discord (unfortunately) is active and they push out features often
Relatively speaking, it's pretty active. Just not in the grand scheme of things. I've been putting off trying it out, but you just might have given me the push I need.
Rather sad about discord yeah.
Yea that's fair, I haven't kept up with Arc (the chromium equivalent of Zen) but I imagine they're still ahead
I actually have some custom made Firefox user style that makes it look like arc :)
Oof, bad news for you. Arc is on life support. The company is pivoting to development of a different browser.
Story about it from the verge.
I might consider that a good thing if it means that the Firefox version can pull ahead 😄