Facing 80% revenue drop, Mozilla rebrands itself and doubles down on being “advocates,” “activists,” fighting “misinformation”

Mozilla blog and elsewhere ^ | 12/25/24 | ol' marty

[Westbrook]

Yup.

Mozilla will join the ranks of dinosaur media.

[The Duke]

I just started using the Brave browser last week. No complaints at all. In fact, I understand it's really Chrome, but configured for max privacy and ad-blocking.

Seems to be a bit snappier.

[Westbrook]

Yes!

Brave is a GREAT alternative.

[butlerweave]

The Logo is Mozilla bending over to Bill Gates ,LOL

[SeekAndFind]

Karma!

This is the company that drove their CEO Brendan Eich ( developer of the popular browser language JavaScript ) out because he contributed ( privately) to a California referendum initiative defining marriage as between one man and one woman. He didn’t even make a big deal of his contribution but someone discovered it and leaked it to the world.

Eich went on to develop the much better ( in my opinion ) internet browser — BRAVE.

Mozilla deserves everything their woke board gets.

[time4good]

I have used Brave now for a few years after FireFox outing as Woke. Brave is great. I’ve used their VPN - very good.

It’s not ‘really Chrome’ - Google separated out their ‘Chromium Engine’ a number of years back and it’s public domain - Brave and Microsoft’s Edge and Google Chrome are based on it. But yes, Brave does a great job of being NOT Google.
Btw, I haven’t tried their Talk, but another engineer said it’s way better than MS or Zoom - maybe a little bit less smooth as Google’s Meet.

[DiogenesLamp]

Facing 80% revenue drop, Mozilla rebrands itself and doubles down on being “advocates,” “activists,” fighting “misinformation”

This is simple. If you are my political enemy, if you believe in things that I see as hateful and destructive of the family and of normal life, then I don't want to give you any money... ever.

I want you driven out of business and destroyed as an entity.

[daniel1212]

So not having learned, Mozilla to follow Google/Chrome [stop it!], to which it lost the browser war - due to promotion, not superiority. I like Firefox much better than any Chromium-based browser, because of the greater degree of customization of Firefox (which is partly "warranted" due to FF trying to copy Chrome), , which esp. includes multiple tab rows.

However, the best Chromium-based browser IMO is Vivaldi, and you can enable multiple tab rows on that, as you can for Firefox via various instructions, none of which are official options.

I found that The Patcher works well (though FF updates sometimes broke it, thus needing an update) for MTRs'.

However, Floorp (written by Japanese students) enables this as a feature (preferences>design). See review here.

And with Floorp, I found you can run multiple installations of it (which you can with portable Firefox with a little editing, as I do, each generally for its own purpose). Thank God for such options.

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Floorp Browser: Is It The Most Advanced Cross-Platform Firefox Derivative? Let's take a look at another interesting Firefox fork, Floorp.

By the grace of God, I have 128GB RAM on a MSI b450 Pro mobo (+ RYzen 3200G) which easily runs two Bible programs, 2 word pros and multiple docs, 8 portable installs of FF, 2 of Vivladi, 2 of Floorp, browsers each for its own general purpose) all with multiple tab rows. Thanks be to God. May all be used only for what is good in His sight.

[gibsonguy]

Ahh Netscape the good old days. The founder is actually one of the good guys but he is long gone. Marc Andresson if memory serves

[DiogenesLamp]

Brave has decent AI.

Brave searches absolutely suck. I constantly have to go over to Bing because Brave censors so much content i'm looking for. I can't find it at all on Brave, no matter how deep I go into the search results.

Go over to Bing, and I usually find it pretty quick.

It happens so often, I cannot believe it is accidental or the consequence of a poor data base. I fell they are deliberately hiding stuff they don't want people to see.

[PAR35]

I phased out Firefox when they went from scheduled updates to continuous updates. I don’t want to have to wait for the browser to update every time I want to open it.

[daniel1212]

Brave has decent AI.

I rarely use browsers that do not enable multiple tab rows.I used Brave once but did not see what I wanted, but I go to https://poe.com/ and https://www.perplexity.ai/. Much better than any SE for many answers. thank God for choices!

[newfreep]

Ditto on Brave+Bing.

I’ve been using that combo for 10+ years.

The only complaint I have is X-videos on Brave are limited to 270p due to lack of H265 extension.

Edge allows H265 extension to be installed so the X-videos are much higher quality.

[daniel1212]

Yes, Brendan Eich (/ˈaɪk/ EYEK; born July 4, 1961)[1] is an American computer programmer and technology executive. He created the JavaScript programming language and co-founded the Mozilla project, the Mozilla Foundation, and the Mozilla Corporation. He served as the Mozilla Corporation's chief technical officer before he was appointed chief executive officer, but resigned shortly after his appointment due to pressure over his opposition to same-sex marriage.[2] He subsequently became the cofounder and CEO of Brave Software. - WP

his ouster is one of the examples cited in: https://peacebyjesuscom.blogspot.com/2022/05/quoracom-censored-why-are-so-many.html

[FreedomPoster]

Bingo on that.

Mostly use Brave browser now.

[logi_cal869]

Watched part of the vid.

OMG.

Cheers to their looming demise.

[Robert DeLong]

Yeah, that will solve their problems. /sarcasm

[Angelino97]

Yet the Tor privacy browser is based on Firefox.

[MayflowerMadam]

I use Brave very often, but not for everything.

[FrdmLvr]

Hmmm, maybe that’s how they sucked us in.