I cannot really be happy about being on Librewolf, because I am very afraid Firefox might eventually ditch MV2 as well. Mozilla is dependent on Google and is known for questionable choices, so...
Firefox supports MV3, with some tweaks such as the WebRequest limitations added by Google's MV3 being removed from the Firefox implementation. I don't think they will remove it
Google forcing Firefox to do such a move sounds very anti-competitive. I don't know if that would ever happen.
How do they force them? Just curious so asking
Google pays Firefox hundreds of millions of dollars a year to be their default search engine. In 2021, this accounted for 83% of Mozilla's revenue.
They don't! Mozilla "by themselves" just "agrees" that MV2 is obsolete because they "prioritize security".
Would there likely be a fork at that point for those that wish to continue?
This would be the same problem as in Chromium - you theoretically can, but in practice maintaining it with zero support from the original company would get increasingly hard.
I cannot really be happy about being on Librewolf, because I am very afraid Firefox might eventually ditch MV2 as well. Mozilla is dependent on Google and is known for questionable choices, so...
Firefox supports MV3, with some tweaks such as the WebRequest limitations added by Google's MV3 being removed from the Firefox implementation. I don't think they will remove it
Google forcing Firefox to do such a move sounds very anti-competitive. I don't know if that would ever happen.
How do they force them? Just curious so asking
Google pays Firefox hundreds of millions of dollars a year to be their default search engine. In 2021, this accounted for 83% of Mozilla's revenue.
Google bankrolls Firefox basically.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-05-05/why-google-keeps-paying-mozilla-s-firefox-even-as-chrome-dominates
They don't! Mozilla "by themselves" just "agrees" that MV2 is obsolete because they "prioritize security".
Would there likely be a fork at that point for those that wish to continue?
This would be the same problem as in Chromium - you theoretically can, but in practice maintaining it with zero support from the original company would get increasingly hard.