Trust in Firefox and Mozilla Is Gone – Let's Talk Alternatives

1. WebKit

   1 177 8,796 10.0 JavaScript

   Home of the WebKit project, the browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store and many other applications on macOS, iOS and Linux.

   

   > In terms of open source there are really only Chromium- and Firefox-derived browsers (I’m disregarding projects like the still pre-alpha Ladybird here).

   isn’t webkit open source?

   https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit

   or maybe are you referring to something else?

2. InfluxDB

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   InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.

   

3. Firefox Account Server

   2 19 348 9.9 JavaScript

   Discontinued Monorepo for Firefox Accounts

   

   Depending on how far those Firefox forks have deviated, self-hosting the Firefox sync services has been a thing for quite a long time: https://github.com/mozilla/fxa and https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howtos/run...

4. desktop

   3 38 34,381 10.0 C++

   Welcome to a calmer internet

   

   Haven't seen it mentioned yet, but Zen (https://zen-browser.app/) seems to me so far like a Firefox fork worth supporting.

5. docker-webkit-dev

   4 1 19 8.2 Dockerfile

   Docker images for doing WebKit development

   

   > Is it something a small team could conceivably do if you placed reasonable constraints on it: one platform at first, no cloud sync, minimal feature set, etc.?

   Yes.

   There's a `webkitdev` Docker image which includes the required software to build WebKit on Windows¹, and you can use Playwright to run WebKit (including Web Inspector) on Windows very easily². If you wanted to start with Linux, WebKitGTK would presumably be extremely helpful.³ (Tauru uses WebKit on Linux through through `webkit2gtk`, for example.)

   ¹ https://github.com/WebKitForWindows/docker-webkit-dev ² https://dev.to/dustinbrett/running-the-latest-safari-webkit-... ³ https://webkitgtk.org/

6. apple-browsers

   5 1 95 10.0 Swift

   DuckDuckGo iOS & macOS browsers

   

   > There is no open-source browser based on it that you could use as an alternative to Firefox.

   here you go:

   https://github.com/duckduckgo/apple-browsers

7. gecko-b2g

   6 13 126 0.0 C++

   Gecko with Gonk support

   

8. Servo

   7 171 30,961 10.0 Rust

   Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.

   

   > I mentioned momentum for a reason, servo doesn't have any. Ladybird however is extremely actively developed.

   Looking at https://github.com/servo/servo it's very actively developed and gaining new contributors. The number of contributors for both projects is very similar. They are both active.

9. Stream

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   Stream - Scalable APIs for Chat, Feeds, Moderation, & Video. Stream helps developers build engaging apps that scale to millions with performant and flexible Chat, Feeds, Moderation, and Video APIs and SDKs powered by a global edge network and enterprise-grade infrastructure.

   

10. ladybird

    8 59 45,366 10.0 C++

    Truly independent web browser

    

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