--- title: basebrowserproject | daily.dev description: Security and privacy researcher Sarah Jamie Lewis is calling for Firefox forks to collaborate on a community-maintained hard fork of Firefox, isolated from... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/basebrowserproject-vi7tburnl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: basebrowserproject | daily.dev og:description: Security and privacy researcher Sarah Jamie Lewis is calling for Firefox forks to collaborate on a community-maintained hard fork of Firefox, isolated from... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/basebrowserproject-vi7tburnl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Vi7tbUrNL.png og:image:alt: basebrowserproject og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # basebrowserproject **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 12 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Security and privacy researcher Sarah Jamie Lewis is calling for Firefox forks to collaborate on a community-maintained hard fork of Firefox, isolated from Mozilla's control. The motivation stems from Mozilla's direction — including adding ~136,000+ lines of AI/LLM-related code to Firefox — and no single fork having enough capacity to maintain a clean base independently. Lewis has set up a Codeberg organization to coordinate efforts, catalog features to remove (AI chat, DRM, telemetry, etc.), and connect contributors. The thread includes discussion of Servo as a potential future base, existing forks like Konform and Palemoon, and the challenges of bootstrapping such a large collaborative project without guaranteed funding or management. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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