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It's one thing to have a hard time tearing yourself away from Twitter, quite another to knowingly go back.
Might as well just use Vivaldi at this point.
Vivaldi makes it easier for Google to maintain its monopoly and dictate how things are on the web. Google is way worse than Mozilla in every aspect. A Firefox fork is the way.
You're right.
Plus, after trying it for an hour, I can't get used to Vivaldi's gross font rendering.
My unwillingness to use Chromium borders on the extreme, but this is the final straw for me. Vivaldi seems more aligned with my values than any other major player at this point, and the Firefox forks don't sit quite right with me.
I can't wait for Servo to be ready.
What is wrong with ff forks?
In general it seems to me Firefox codebase is too big for any of the current forks to really be independent alternatives. It's all just my opinion and personal experience though. Librewolf has different priorities to me to the point where I found that usability suffered, whereas Waterfox' inclusion of Brave's adnlock engine is highly unwelcome in my book - I want nothing to do with brave. Zen Browser seemed messy to me, though I can see how it's great for others.
It seems to me Chromium, WebKit and Servo are better at separating the engine from the browser, making it possible for smaller actors to make their own browsers without forking the engine. A Firefox fork seems to me to just become a very big thing very fast, and one that requires a large dedicated team to be done right. I know other people enjoy the forks, they just never feel quite right to me.
In short, if Mozilla has turned evil and does shitty things to Gecko as a result, I don't trust that the current forks of Firefox can really provide a real alternative as they depend on upstream development of Firefox.
I built servo from source about a week ago and tried visiting some websites. They have a ways to go...is putting it nicely. Still, there are many commits every day, so hopefully it is just a matter of time.
Why did you build it from source? They frequently update it with servo shell here, and I got it running well on both Android and desktop Linux.
Enabling experimental features is important. While it's still not ready it is already much better than when I first tried it a few months ago. :)