Ghoelian

Do you have a source for that? I can’t seem to find anything on their website, though judging by the past few release notes you’re absolutely right.

Edit: found this video. Kinda feel like this should be a big red banner on the front page though.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=E9yZ0JusME4

OK I think I see what you’re saying now:

If everyone leaves Firefox because of this, Google would probably stop paying them to be the default search engine.

I don’t see that as the biggest issue though. Once people are leaving, my guess is they’re just going to stop maintaining firefox regardless of how much money they get from Google. Cause why maintain a browser literally no one uses, instead of figuratively.

No, using Google makes Google money. That’s why they pay mozilla to be the default.

Zen had its latest release 5 days ago, and arc 4 days ago, so I have no idea what they’re talking about.

Technically Firefox is operated by the Mozilla Foundation, and thunderbird by its subsidiary, MZLA Technologies Corp. This subsidiary also took over K-9 a while ago iirc.