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> Why bother using FF at this point?

Because it is still better and Google has worked even harder to make me dislike them?

That said, if someone made a viable fork of the latest Firefox and fixed all the problems and missing APIs I could easily pay $15 a month for it, maybe $25.

A good browser would be worth almost as much as a good IDE in my current position.

FTR: employeer pays my full subscription to all Jetbrains tools. I'd happily try to get them to pay for unbroken Firefox but more realistically pay it myself. $100 - 200 for the software and $50 to spite Mozilla at this point ;-) Just today someone tried politely to ask about what one could do to get them to reconsider the api to hide tabs and were brushed of by someone.



My guess is everyone has a different definition of unbroken. And with the Chromium-monoculture one can't reliably use some parts of the web with any other browser. Or even a too-old Chromium-based browser for that matter.


Firefox works for everything I need and want to to except my time sheets - and I do a lot.

A fork would of course need to be kept up to date with the base (until everyone switches :-).




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