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wky•about 3 hours ago

Interesting that it’s paying to remove features. Seems reasonable considering it’s paying to get an officially supported build, and if you’d rather not there’s probably a fork doing the same out there.

Edit: That it’s free (as in WinRAR?) on Linux is interesting; what would be the motive for doing that?

estimator7292•about 1 hour ago

It costs a lot of money to publish software on Windows. You have to pay Microsoft a ransom to sign your application or otherwise users get giant scary warnings about running unknown software.

sph•about 1 hour ago

I'd use Brave, and pay for it, if it wasn't running Blink. I know Gecko is a pain in the butt to use, but I'd rather not make Google's hegemony on the web stronger by using their code.

Sorry Brendan, hopefully you'll look into Ladybird once it's more usable.

Lord_Zero•about 2 hours ago

There is no button or option for me to buy Brave Origin.

ImJamal•about 4 hours ago

I hope this works out well and Mozilla takes notice. I've never understood why Mozilla doesn't at least take donations for Firefox.

pwdisswordfishs•about 1 hour ago

There are very good reasons why you 501(c)(3) doesn't allow setting up a non-profit that accept "donations" that benefit one of the non-profit's wholly owned for-profit subsidiaries.

pwdisswordfishs•about 1 hour ago

Mozilla also isn't exactly strapped for cash. They pull in around half a billion dollars per year (to accomplish what could be done on a budget a tenth that size).

mfro•about 3 hours ago

I have found literally 0 incentive to switch from firefox to anything else.

rpdillon•about 3 hours ago

They've watered down their privacy promises quite a bit:

> Mozilla may also receive location-related keywords from your search (such as when you search for “Boston”) and share this with our partners to provide recommended and sponsored content. Where this occurs, Mozilla cannot associate the keyword search with an individual user once the search suggestion has been served and partners are never able to associate search suggestions with an individual user. You can remove this functionality at any time by turning off Sponsored Suggestions—more information on how to do this is available in the relevant Firefox Support page.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/firefox-deletes-...

gib444•about 2 hours ago

Upto 10 activations? Ie if I reinstall the app or my OS 10 times, that's it - buy another code?

theNotFractured•about 3 hours ago

Paying for your browser is crazy when open-source ones like firefox and soon ladybird exist.

Valodim•about 2 hours ago

People keep mentioning ladybird like it'll be a serious contender as a daily driver in the next 10 years. While I do think they're doing impressive work for a tech demo, they are a couple hundred person years behind on an incredibly big piece of software. how could they possibly catch up?

kbelder•about 1 hour ago

Large enterprise software development is *hugely* inefficient. I wouldn't be surprised if, for any given feature, Ladybird developers could implement it in a tenth the time that current Chrome developers would.

Of course, they're ten thousand features behind, so it will take many years. I just think it's not fair to look at the huge number of developers working on Chrome and use that predict the productivity of a smaller, more motivated, less constrained team.

guywithahat•about 3 hours ago

I disagree; I use my browser everyday, including for work. If I can instead pay a little money and have a better experience that makes sense to me, sort of like Kagi but for browsers.

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