Preemptive subtwit.

Let's say you run a nonprofit animal shelter. And for some reason, some people feel you should be seeing hockey-stick growth, but the donations aren't covering it.

So you decide to start up a side-line of selling kittens for meat.

Then you will inevitably have someone stroking their chin and saying, 'Yes, yes, but how could they afford to stay open if they weren't selling kitten deli slices?"

Some might say -- maybe you aren't an animal shelter any more. Some might say.

@Wavebeam librewolf.net/ is a fork of Firefox with the Mozilla stuff stripped, it might be the best non-Chromium and multiplatform option for now.

I hope that Apple releases Safari for Windows again just so there is one more engine out there (weirdly I saw a Safari ad today).

LibreWolf Browser

A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.

^{librewolf.net}

Floorp went proprietary and is kind of sketchy.

I’d avoid any browser based on Firefox ESR except the Tor Browser on “safer” or “safest” mode. ESR only receives security fix backports if they have a sufficiently high-enough severity.

Edit: rescinded, see replies

It went back to Open Source:

blog.ablaze.one/4125/2024-03-1…
github.com/Floorp-Projects/Flo…

V12 in development will move to the full GNU license and is moving away from the ESR release:

blog.ablaze.one/4364/2024-06-1…

That leaves "kind of sketchy"?

The road map of Floorp Browser v12 & v11.

We're currently undertaking a significant refactoring of Floorp, with the r

^{すらーぷの妖精 (ABlog)}

oh nice! i rescind what I said then.

The original reasons outlined for going proprietary felt sketchy because I wasn’t sure how other projects using the source would hurt Floorp the way the maintainer described, unless Floorp would start adding features that generated a revenue stream or something.

But if they backtracked that’s reassuring.