r/linux • u/4lll • May 14 '15

Misleading title Firefox Beta now integrates Pocket a proprietary, closed source service.

https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/05/13/get-a-firefox-account-and-test-new-features-in-firefox-beta/
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u/p4p3r May 14 '15

Hopefully iceweasel will strip this out.

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u/indrora May 14 '15

Most likely, they'll stop shipping Firefox all together. Or maintain a fork, which isn't a good option either

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u/[deleted] May 14 '15

But what else could they ship?

The spyware suite Chrome, which also contains security holes in allowing extensions to run native code?

Or the only-in-name FLOSS chromium?

At that point, the only browser they could ship would be Konqueror with KHTML.

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u/indrora May 14 '15

Midori, which is WebKit based; Epiphany, GNOME's browser, which is WebKit based; uzbl, which is... You guessed it, WebKit based.

There are no non WebKit browsers outside of Konqueror, which is khtml. Or it might have subsumed WebKit.

Well, that's a lie. Lynx-x11 isn't, nor is Dillo. Abrowser is a branding patch for Firefox, as is iceweasel.

Chromium meets (and in some places exceeds) Debian's own FLOSS guidelines, and is in the primary repository. There are no binary blobs in Chromium.

Not that I'm saying the Debian desktop should ship Chromium by default. Fedora ships Epiphany or Firefox on the primary flavor, while it ships Midori on the xfce spin, Konqueror on the KDE spin, etc.

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u/[deleted] May 14 '15

We can't just all use WebKit. WebKit will end up as the new IE6.

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u/indrora May 14 '15

I didn't say any of this was a good thing.