Firefox is my web browser of choice. It does a lot of things right. In particular, with the uBlock Origin add-on, it’s got the best ad blocking you can get on desktop and Android. Firefox is run by…
    • nfultz@awful.systemsEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      Waterfox lore - it got acquired by System1 of “Guy Who Runs Three Companies Called Fidelity But Not The Fidelity You Know Probably Doesn’t Care That There’s Already A Company Called System1 That Does That Same Thing As The System1 His SPAC Is Buying. Just saying.” 1 and then went private again 2, presumably they bought it back after the stock predictably tanked. Subprime adtech is a strange place.

      IMHO should just bring back iceweasel, but what do i know.

    • V0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish
      122·
      3 days ago

      I think I already said this but you’re not making me use something called “Floorp” even if it’s the last piece of software in the world. Just come on.

      • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        There is a wall decoration at the Enschede central station listing all the important companies started there by the local university and all but one I had not heard of (which is prob my fault) but those also all sounded like ‘Floorp’ I get a chuckle every time I walk past it.

        • MBM@lemmings.worldEnglish
          3·
          11 hours ago

          Tech people should be banned from naming things (I’m fine with including myself here)

        • V0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish
          3·
          1 day ago

          Satire died when my friend told me at their Very Serious Corporation with a Very Important Mission Critical Software Stack they use a thing called “Splunk” and it wasn’t a joke.

        • swlabr@awful.systemsEnglish
          5·
          2 days ago

          I only use software named after words that aren’t made up. That is, I don’t use software. I post here by waving copper wire at telephone poles to bit bash my way through the tubes.

        • V0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish
          8·
          3 days ago

          The search engine that dominated the industry was named for a child’s nonsense-babble word for 10^100;

          And how did that work out in the long term? There were warning signs!