Google Is Paying Mozilla $450M Per Year To Be The Default Search Engine On Firefox Keep Firefox Alive But Non-Competitive So That It Isn't Sued for Monopoly
FTFY
What default search engine Firefox's remaining 5 users use is not worth anywhere near $450M/year.
Firefox is still a great browser and the only actual alternative besides Safari.
Your definition of competitive is one purely based on the default browsers installed upon an OS and phones which, not surprisingly, is how Google/Microsoft/Apple hold their share of the web browser market.
If Firefox were the default browser installed on 95% of the world's computers and smart phones, they'd have a monopoly on the web browser market share by default.
If you want to use a Firefox-like browser, you can use a fork like Water Fox and not support the programmer socks wearing danger hairs at Mozilla. Its like the argument with Bud Light, yes all browser devs are woke, but we can choose to not support Mozilla.
Your definition of competitive is one purely based on the default browsers installed upon an OS and phones which, not surprisingly, is how Google/Microsoft/Apple hold their share of the web browser market.
I see you're 12 years old and weren't an independent human in 2009 when Firefox was the dominant browser in spite of not being installed by default on anything.
I have used Brave for a while and like it. The only problem is that it's a downstream fork of Chromium. Not a worry to me but I can understand why people wouldn't like that.
Their search is pretty good too, for general topics. It's not as complete as Google but it's getting better and Google is progressively getting worse* so they'll eventually be at parity.
(*It's fucking broken in fact. Just yesterday I searched for something at Google Images and there was literally 1 image result. The regular search page returned a hundred links. But somehow those links didn't make it to Images...?)
"When you install Vivaldi browser (“Vivaldi”), each installation profile is assigned a unique user ID that is stored on your computer. Vivaldi will send a message using HTTPS directly to our servers located in Iceland every 24 hours containing this ID, version, cpu architecture, screen resolution and time since last message. We anonymize the IP address of Vivaldi users by removing the last octet of the IP address from your Vivaldi client then we store the resolved approximate location after using a local geoip lookup."
Your options are essentially Chromium-based browsers - it's built by Google, who finances Mozilla.
Google Is Paying Mozilla $450M Per Year To Be The Default Search Engine On Firefox
You'll always be supporting the wrong side in the browser wars so you might as well stick to the one you like.
FTFY
What default search engine Firefox's remaining 5 users use is not worth anywhere near $450M/year.
Competitive is subjective.
Firefox is still a great browser and the only actual alternative besides Safari.
Your definition of competitive is one purely based on the default browsers installed upon an OS and phones which, not surprisingly, is how Google/Microsoft/Apple hold their share of the web browser market.
If Firefox were the default browser installed on 95% of the world's computers and smart phones, they'd have a monopoly on the web browser market share by default.
If you want to use a Firefox-like browser, you can use a fork like Water Fox and not support the programmer socks wearing danger hairs at Mozilla. Its like the argument with Bud Light, yes all browser devs are woke, but we can choose to not support Mozilla.
I see you're 12 years old and weren't an independent human in 2009 when Firefox was the dominant browser in spite of not being installed by default on anything.
Which browser did you have in mind?
I have used Brave for a while and like it. The only problem is that it's a downstream fork of Chromium. Not a worry to me but I can understand why people wouldn't like that.
Their search is pretty good too, for general topics. It's not as complete as Google but it's getting better and Google is progressively getting worse* so they'll eventually be at parity.
(*It's fucking broken in fact. Just yesterday I searched for something at Google Images and there was literally 1 image result. The regular search page returned a hundred links. But somehow those links didn't make it to Images...?)
Then you should try out Pale Moon.
Let me know how it goes. I've been using Brave for a while and I was considering switching.
Then you don't want Vivaldi, at all. https://vivaldi.com/privacy/browser/
"When you install Vivaldi browser (“Vivaldi”), each installation profile is assigned a unique user ID that is stored on your computer. Vivaldi will send a message using HTTPS directly to our servers located in Iceland every 24 hours containing this ID, version, cpu architecture, screen resolution and time since last message. We anonymize the IP address of Vivaldi users by removing the last octet of the IP address from your Vivaldi client then we store the resolved approximate location after using a local geoip lookup."
That seems extremely tame if that's the worst thing they do.