Hot off the back of its recent leadership rejig, Mozilla has announced users of Firefox will soon be subject to a ‘Terms of Use’ policy — a first for the iconic open source web browser.

This official Terms of Use will, Mozilla argues, offer users ‘more transparency’ over their ‘rights and permissions’ as they use Firefox to browse the information superhighway — as well well as Mozilla’s “rights” to help them do it, as this excerpt makes clear:

You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox, including processing data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice, as well as acting on your behalf to help you navigate the internet.

When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.

Also about to go into effect is an updated privacy notice (aka privacy policy). This adds a crop of cushy caveats to cover the company’s planned AI chatbot integrations, cloud-based service features, and more ads and sponsored content on Firefox New Tab page.

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    Just installed LibreWolf and got my favourite addons working. Take the leap and leave this sinking ship.

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      My one, sole issue with LibreWolf is—and correct me if I’m wrong—it still relies heavily upon Mozilla’s efforts in developing Firefox. LibreWolf is not a standalone fork, just a downstream improvement.

      It really sucks, because apparently, developing a web browser is hard. Until we can manage to get a browser that’s completely free from Chromium and Firefox, we’re kinda stuck with the Mozilla hand that feeds us as the current best option.

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        24 hours ago

        I’m just looking for a temporary solution until Ladybird gets up and running. That’s our best long term solution I think.