Forking (and fixing) Firefox

If nearly two decades ago you were to tell an early Firefox adopter that there would come a day the browser would be “forked” to create another, specifically out of the need to focus on privacy, security, and freedom, they would surely have had a hard time believing it.

After all, the Mozilla Foundation-developed Firefox was at the time it was first released, and for a good while later, a poster child for exactly those values and benefits. And it was as such that it took the world by storm, ousting Microsoft’s obsolete IE.