Mozilla is trying to innovate and bring new features to Firefox, but the browser continues to lose users. Despite these concerning market trends, the company is actively...

Can the open source browser get its mojo back before turning into history’s footnote?

  • chloroken@lemmy.mlEnglish
    210·
    3 days ago

    Downstream. WaterFox et. al. are downstream of Firefox. “Soft” and “hard” forks are not a thing.

    • 4am@lemmy.zipEnglish
      9·
      3 days ago

      A hard fork means that a project forks and then doesn’t take upstream patches any longer. That absolutely happens all the time. Not for the Firefox downstreams, which are all soft forks, but those concepts are a thing.