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There are those. I pay to support Floorp.

But I also donate to Firefox and Thunderbird cause the forks wouldn’t exist without them.

I may be prematurely judgemental here but I just can not take a project named "floorp" seriously.

Your second paragraph is more important though: none of these let's call them Firefox distributions are proper forks. They're not developed by teams who could develop and maintain a browser independent of Mozilla. I believe that's what your parent comment means by a "serious fork". Floorp and Waterfox and LibreWolf are not that.

After using projects named like "slurp", "eww" (combined with "yuck"), "yay", "honkers railway", "jason" and many many others, I personally kind of gave up on any attempts to judge projects by their titles. Partly due to many developers being whimsical nerds, partly because even marketable names say nothing about the product half the time so what's the point anyway

It’s Firefox fork being developed by a bunch of Japanese students.

They do good work. I can forgive them for not being the best at naming things in English.

I "forgive" them too, I have no animosity towards them and wish them the best. I just think that the name communicates a lack of seriousness. That's not a criticism, I have plenty of non-serious projects

Kind of agree, needs a better name. It sounds like the name of a social media platform.

Unless you purchased some service from them, you didn't donate to Firefox, because that's a Mozilla Corporation project. Donating to Mozilla Foundation funds their initiatives, but not Firefox.

To Thunderbird, however, we can actually donate to.

At one point, paying for Mozilla's mullvad rebadge would give money to the corp. If you were already going to pay for a VPN, then it's effectively a donation.

Though, just because money goes to the corp, doesn't mean it will contribute to Firefox' development either.

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