Sounds like they will need to invest on a whole new browser engine.I do not care much about Firefox, but TOR is another story. I just can not imagine TOR being Chromium based.
Mozilla lays off 70 employees to prepare for tough years ahead (Update: 250)
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- Apr 1, 2019
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I learned by looking into it a bit The Mozilla Foundation (not-for-profit) that you donate to filters very little of that money into the fully owned subsidiary The Mozilla Corp (for-profit that develops Firefox), due to regulations and tax reasons. Most of Their money comes from the google search deal, the rest is from their VPN, Pocket Premium, password manager subs etc.. So if you want to support Firefox you would do it best by paying for a VPN sub? Or maybe Pocket Premium? Either way, this could be the sign of the end times, or they could become a leaner even more niche product. Since they dumped their threat team I’d be interested to see how secure the browser stays.
"So far 2020 is probably the worst year in terms of malicious Tor exit relay activity"I do not care much about Firefox, but TOR is another story. I just can not imagine TOR being Chromium based.
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- Jun 14, 2020
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Its sad, I've been with Mozilla from the good/bad early days. Having one company that is responsible for the majority of internet browsing is not a good idea. There are a lot of eye balls on Google but they do eventually plan on eliminating ad blockers so their own ads are more visible. Throwing money at the people who make these ad blockers wasn't the right move for them, change some terms of service and remove them from your web store. It pains me just to say the word, 'web store'. 
Btw Temporary containers is really good but with a few issue fixes it will be great.
Btw Temporary containers is really good but with a few issue fixes it will be great.
- Mar 16, 2019
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It's really sad to see their decline. It's a great browser with many brilliant unique features and the only cross platform freshness available in this Chromium filled world. Killing the entire threat management team is like digging your own grave 
- Jan 21, 2018
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I feel the same. I use Brave and have looked at Download latest stable Chromium binaries (64-bit and 32-bit)
I'm not sold on the latter yet, its to do with my long time inbuilt G**gle blocker, based on their "Don't be evil" fake philosphy. Yes, I do know its supposed to be cleaned up, but... As for Brave I do like it, but they have not exactly kept to their script of being a safer browser with some of their antics.
I've been a Firefox user since it was first on the scene and I have long sang its praises, but losing its threat team makes no sense to me if it wants to remain viable after other recent developments. Firefox offshoots like PaleMoon and WaterFox get stick for being such small developments that they cannot possibly react to new threats immediately; now Firefox appears to have joined them in that respect.
I feel homeless.
- Apr 1, 2019
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It’s supposed to be cleaned up?
Anyway, I may give Brave a try again, but I am also wary of their antics. Honestly looking at all the recent studies maybe going back to Chrome with a couple privacy extensions and tweaks will be my course. I like Edge, but google already has so much info on me why spread it to more corporations?
- Apr 1, 2019
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I will miss true fantastic synced tabs function in Firefox.
- Jan 21, 2018
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It's called data minimization
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- May 29, 2018
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Wow just when i got to enjoy firefox by having some nice about:configs over chromium makes it look awful that they have kicked off their threat team
Maybe its time to move to yandex once again, since they have extension support for android browser too...aswell kaspersky just enabled protection for it
Atleast yandex dont censor their searches like all other search engines do
edit: yandex has been changed so much....just horrified and removed it
Maybe its time to move to yandex once again, since they have extension support for android browser too...aswell kaspersky just enabled protection for it
Atleast yandex dont censor their searches like all other search engines do
edit: yandex has been changed so much....just horrified and removed it
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- Mar 16, 2019
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Wait what! Other browsers like Chrome, Edge don't have this?
- Apr 24, 2016
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- Mar 16, 2019
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I think Chrome also has this but don't know where the option is.
- Apr 24, 2016
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Yes, they have it, found this on Google:
How to Sync and Access Open Chrome Tabs Across Devices
Do you use Chrome on multiple devices? You can sync your tabs across devices using your Google account and open them on any device.
www.groovypost.com
- Apr 1, 2019
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I’m also not sure if it’s encrypted in chrome. But supposedly it functions better in FF. Never tried it in Chrome, but going between my phone and two PCs Ff is butter smooth.
- Mar 29, 2018
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They have features like Rewards/Ads that users may disable. And they've made one or two mistakes which they've quickly owned up to. I don't see anything shady about them as everything they've done has been above board.
- Nov 10, 2017
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To be honest I dont know lets see what happen and maybe i would move to Brave or Edge...
- May 29, 2018
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Dunno, Firefox is not dying because of this....and if we have tough years ahead most users probably said that years ago aswell (that firefox is not going right way, actually same with the opera..people complaining everyday on opera browser channel that opera 12 was the best , but still they use opera this day)
I dont care about vpn stuff, and its hard to implement paywall to browser itself so its interesting to see whats happening over this year as the google contract probably will lay off
But in my opinion what i have used firefox this year more than ever, i have loved about:config updates alot....the fenix aka new android browser is awesome ( ublock origin etc. included...but still people complaining you cant add any extensions you want to have)
Soooo currently firefox is the best browser for mobile phones, tablets etc. And on desktop its currently hard to find any chromium browser wich does stuff better than ff ( my opinion)
TLDR: Firefox users dont rush, i do alot and its not worth it
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