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Isn’t Firefox exclusively funded by Google? Gotta be some conflict of interest in there…
This isn’t true. They do receive majority funding from them but its for the service of setting Google as the default search engine which many people never change and is worth a lot to google. Also Google funds them for regulatory reasons. If Firefox went under Google would be looking at some enormous multi-billion dollar fines from the EU and possibly even US as well as others for being a monopoly and having no choice in the market. They remember what happened to Microsoft with IE via anti-trust and don’t want to risk being broken up either. By keeping FF afloat they can say there are other maintained options for consumers and that they’re not an unchallenged monopoly. Of course it is in their interest to keep Firefox’s userbase small and theirs large but the failings of the Mozilla foundation in managing FF and their choices are probably their own not any conspiracy by Google as Google has been paying them tens to hundreds of millions for I think at least a decade and their usershare has fluctuated.
Is Proton VPN a good alternative to Mullvad?
Whenever I hear any talk about VPNs, my mind always goes back to that one Tom Scott video. He’s a cool guy so I believe his claim - but that raises doubts about all the companies.
I want to say that Firefox for android is a huge pain in the ass. It’s fine for general browsing but web apps don’t work as good as Chrome does. The solution I found to this is to use Bromite for the web apps I need (Chapo, tumblr, twitter, Instagram, etc). I still keep Firefox for anything that involves reading for long periods of time because it has the Dark Reader add-on, rip bypass-paywalls on ff android tho
I strongly advise against doing that unless you want to give yourself elevated heart levels for 1-3 days. Just use virtual box if you just want to test an OS. It will run the is off a file it makes instead of a full partition. Or install it on a separate disk, like a USB drive, and select which to boot with your bios.
Otherwise it really depends on what existing partition scheme is on your disk. Making a new partition usually requires wiping your disk. If you already have a partition ready, then you should be able to select that partition in some “advanced” option of its installer (which I am not familiar with).
If you do choose to “dual-boot” a Linux and windows or whatever, understand that partitions aren’t the hardest part. Its getting the boot-loader right. Because you’ll need to be able to select which OS you want to run. You must have the Linux bootloader installed as the default and have that configured to boot windows or your Linux OS.
The first time I installed Linux was trying to dual boot Arch Linux and Windows 7. Took me a week but I’m better at Linux now.
thoughts on brave browser?
