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[–] yoasif@fedia.io 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't really get why you think developing Ladybird will progress faster than Firefox - or a Firefox fork.

There's a larger community behind Gecko and it is a more complete browser. It doesn't make sense to me that paid development would go into Ladybird over Chromium or Gecko.

Without paid development, you don't have a browser that stays working, so I don't really see that as an option., sadly.

More of an option for Gemini, imo.

[–] Brometeo@social.vivaldi.net 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

@yoasif@fedia.io I don't think Ladybird will progress faster, but eventually could be a simpler option that would attract attention and public funds.

The problem with google funds is a big one. And that is the seed of my caring.

[–] yoasif@fedia.io 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Nothing is stopping public funding of Firefox, so I don't see it as an either, or situation.

Would you deny Ladybird search revenues? It is an interesting question.

[–] Brometeo@social.vivaldi.net 1 points 3 weeks ago

@yoasif@fedia.io My point is not firefox versus ladybird, but free softwar web browser. In that regard, I see competing projects as a virtue.

IMHO, free software funding should be, if possible, public and based on interested people/organizations, not via publicity for another big corporation.