This looks bad. It's the old failing ways of Mozilla. No focus, too much scope, and chasing shiny things.

> For years Mozilla has been incorrectly thought of by many as "the Firefox company." This perception left too much of our great work in the shadows. To bring some more light, we’ve started the process of reinvigorating and elevating the Mozilla brand itself.

We should just fork Firefox now, or even easier support an existing fork. Just looked around, folks will likely have different viewpoints. I don't know what we lose without legacy plugins, but LibreWolf seems alright at face-value:

LibreWolf

    Purpose: Privacy-focused fork of Firefox.
    Features:
        No telemetry, ads, or sponsored content.
        Enhanced tracking protection and hardened privacy settings.
        Frequent updates to align with Firefox’s mainline security patches.
    Use Case: Designed for users seeking the most secure and private browsing experience.

The project seems to take an extreme non-commercial view to that point that the download will appear broken[0] because it's not signed. They don't sign it because...

> This happens because we do not notarize the macOS version of the browser: we don't have a paid Apple Developer license and we don't want to support this signing mechanism that is put behind a paywall without providing significant gains.

> Here[1] you can find a proposed fix, and the relative discussion. Alternatively, you can remove the quarantine attribute directly from brew: [...]

Hrmm. What worked for me is `xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/LibreWolf.app`

[0] https://gitlab.com/librewolf-community/browser/bsys6/

[1] https://codeberg.org/librewolf/issues/issues/710#issuecommen...

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