smdh @ more Firefox BS.
“Firefox was created in 2002 under the codename ‘Phoenix’ by members of the Mozilla community who desired a standalone browser rather than the Mozilla Application Suite bundle.”
Remember those halcyon Phoenix days? I do.
They were all too short lived.
Now even Firefox forks such as @librewolf seem to be sitting on their thumbs, thinking maybe it’s sufficient to merely option out offending lines of code.
Have decades of return to libc exploits meant nothing to developers?!
If you aren’t going to branch to the code, don’t leave it in the source! It is an attack surface laying dormant whether you realize it or not.
Is it more work? Sure.
Do the work!
LibreSSL didn’t rip out tens of thousands of lines from OpenSSL without good reasons.
The dividends have been appreciable.
Why are you complaining about unpaid volunteers doing their best to create a privacy-focused fork? Read their FAQ first: Why don’t you accept donations?.
And also: no donations means no expectations. This means that people working on LibreWolf are free to move on to other projects whenever they want.
You’re not entitled to the features you demand. If you want it, then work on it.
For a moment there, I even foolishly started to type out a long reply, trying to take this in good faith. But the more I think about it, the more more or less everything about this starts getting infuriating.
So, uh: whatever. Fork it? Send PR / “Do the work!”? Use something else? Go away?
Sometimes, the best answer is
- internal and
- external
peaceful mindful smiling silence.
Thanks for all you passionately do and: https://infosec.exchange/@wyat/113051826962003847
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