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I feel like if they were gonna go chromium, they should have gone with Vivaldi. It may not be open source but it's not doing a crypto scam. Waterfox would have also been a good choice, probably better because it's Gecko.
I don't know the details, but I hope they will at least remove the VPN and crypto wallet integrations from the default installed version.
The distro sucks anyway. They ship really fucking old packages, even more so than Debian or other stable distros.
Why are you guys so obsessed with the latest packages? A lot of new stuff doesn't work on older PCs which is also Linux's target market.
Not all of us use older PC's. I really don't care what other people use but I like being on the latest version of whatever software I'm using. Also, I used endeavourOS on a Thinkpad T-420 and didn't have any issues with running the latest software on that laptop from 2012. I'm not saying you haven't had issues but it isn't exactly black or white. Older PC's are not Linux's target market. Everything is Linux's target market. Linux will run on everything from a Pentium II laptop to a $50,000,000 super computer.
Not sure why they don't just ship Firefox with extensions like uBlock pre-installed
Edit: it looks like they're heavily tweaking Brave regardless. I doubt this move was for technical reasons
Probably someone's pet project
Or, you know, a marketing company that develops a browser maybe bought an ad
Wow, never recommending zorin to anyone again. Switching from gecko to chromium is a dumb move.
Maybe this was not supposed to have been posted until April fool's day. Silly Zorin was too early for the joke.
I have ff installed but uses librewolf for most uses. Should I be worried if ff is in my system? Somebody please explain.
I think we're pretty far from that being a problem
Thank you. Was out of the loop with ff for a while.