>>106467163 >whats been going on with this. Why has everyone been sayign firfox is dying/dead the past few months >I started using it and it seems fine
It's about the google money, they cannot have it and google get's away with still keeping chrome and android.
>>106467174
But they said in the ruling that Google can pay for having search, but can't pay for exclusivity.
Google doesn't have exclusivity in Firefox.
>>106467422
The issue lies with the definition of exclusivity. The judge, I feel, was just trying really hard to come up with an excuse to set Google free and that's how you end it up with that travesty of a ruling.
>>106467464
How is it a bad ruling? Users WANT Google as the default. If they didn't pay them they'd still end up as the default anyway if it gets changed to yahoo or bing or some shit but then Mozilla would barely see a dime. If anything this saves other companies from gimping their own products by sliding in a 2-bit default instead of the gold standard in.
>>106467480
Because in a better world Google would have to sell Chrome and start from scratch. It would significantly hamper its data collection and hold of the mobile and desktop market. Consequentially it would open the market for alternatives for a little while. There are probably more implications to this that I can't see right now.
Or maybe Google would just fork Chromium and create Silvium and this would be another nothingburger. Go figure. Idk
I am confident that Firefox 140 ESR will still work with most websites for at least 5 more years.
Anons like to spread FUD that you will be blocked from the internet or instantly get malware as soon as your browser or operating system is discontinued.
Driving a classic car is way more dangerous than using legacy software. Do you guys sperg every time you see an old car on the road? Why is 1% chance of ransomware scary but 1% chance of dying in a fiery wreck okay?
>>106467553
Chromium is already open source software, it makes 0 sense to think that "selling" it would do anything. People don't want Chome, they want the Google Web Browser. They'd just spin off chromium and start Google Web and be right where they were before, and whoever was dumb enough to buy Chrome would be stuck with the equivalent of Microsoft Edge, just some non-google chromium knockoff.
>>106467629
What a strange comparison. To answer your question, I wouldn't do either. Both are a disaster waiting to happen. If you don't update your browser, you become more and more likely to hit drivebys such as this: >https://blog.cloudflare.com/uncovering-the-hidden-webp-vulnerability-cve-2023-4863/ >The vulnerability allows an attacker to create a malformed WebP image file that makes libwebp write data beyond the buffer memory allocated to the image decoder. By writing past the legal bounds of the buffer, it is possible to modify sensitive data in memory, eventually leading to execution of the attacker's code.
>>106471116
twitch changed something on their end. install FFZ as a userscript instead of an extension, but only disable the extension the first time you open twitch so your settings don't get lost
