I prefer Librewolf as it is easier and simpler to use

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      LibreJS is a bad project and it is never going to work. Free software is very important to computing and the web but I wish the FSF would stop shoveling broken junk. What’s worse is that if you dare to disagree with the FSF cult they see you as the enemy

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        “Richard Stallman is a sexist and a transphobe”

        “You’re a corporate shill!”

        Like I couldn’t have possibly reached that conclusion based on the things that he says or the way the be acts…

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          It is a script that automatically changes the internal flags of Firefox (accessed manually through “about:config”) but isn’t a recompile. A fork that uses most of the Arkenfox config is Librewolf.

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              Arkenfox quite literally is not a fork. It is just changing settings. That is like saying I am making a Firefox fork by changing it to dark theme and changing the default search engine to Bing.

              Arkenfox isn’t a fork, even with a script it is manual for much of it. A fork requires redistributing the code, which for Firefox requires the Dev to change the name and replace icons of the application (to comply with Firefox’s license), which requires modifying the source code and compiling.

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                Taking the latest release and then running a script to patch it with some modifications is the definition of a fork.

                By your logic, Tor Browser isn’t a fork of Firefox.

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      Every fork creates fragmentation. Then you get forks of forks. Then you get forks of forks of forks. Eventually, you get a knife, and a spoon, and a spork, maybe even a fpoon. And every fork splits your developer pool in half! And once you’re down to one developer each, the developer splits in half! And then you have no project.

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              Only a handful of forks will actually be used.

              Tell that to Linux lol

              or userspace audio daemons

              or package managers

              or FHS

              or Linux userspace network stacks

              or Linux firewalls

              or init systems & rc managers

              or window managers / desktop environments

              or graphics toolkits

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                That’s the idea. It is good to have options. Single standards are a bad idea even though they are convenient in the short term.

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                  Hard disagree. Though I suppose this is the usual big disagreement between linux and bsd users.