Use one of the forks. librewolf, waterfox, zen. Firefox itself lost trust when Mozilla tried to push the new Terms of Use earlier this year. That was so aggressively user-hostile that nobody should trust Mozilla ever again. Using a fork puts an insulation layer between you and Mozilla.
Librewolf is just a directly de-mozillaed and privacy-enhanced Firefox, similar to Ungoogled Chromium. I've been trying to get in the habit of using Zen Browser, which has a bunch of UI changes.
> Firefox itself lost trust when Mozilla tried to push the new Terms of Use earlier this year.
Those terms of use aren't in place any longer. I'm surprised that listening to the users is viewed as something bad.
This. Their devs and reactivity to their user base kept my trust.
Their marketing and legal departments lost it long before the terms of service debacle.
Rolling back a change that causes loss of user trust does not automatically restore that trust. It takes time and ongoing public commitment to regain that trust.
Allowing that ToS change is what put them on the spyware list, not rolling it back.
The problem is that all those forks are beholden to Mozilla's corporate interests the same way the chromium derivatives are beholden to Google's corporate interests. What we need is one of the newer independent engines to mature - libweb, servo or blitz.
How are they beholden? In the sense that it's hard to provide engine updates without the funding of goog?
edit: also, by "libweb", did you mean "ladybird"?
You can read this as, "I want Mozilla to spend millions developing a competitive Chrome alternative, but I want it for free and aligned with all my personal nitpicks".
Typical freeloader behaviour, moans about free software politics but won't contribute anything themselves.
No they're not. They can pull what they like and not pull what they don't.
Librewolf is trying to be de-Mozillaed, privacy-enhanced Firefox, so it'll probably take whatever not-overtly-spyware patches Mozilla adds. Some others, like Waterfox and Pale Moon, are more selective.