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Altough the Mozilla people have long been acting like a commercial company, bent on profits and trying hard to herd Firefox users into the hands of their ad-company handlers (first Google and now Yahoo), Firefox is still officially open source and all builds are available.
Side note: The development of open source has gone through interesting turns lately. It started out that most OSS was rough, unfinished, and often needed to be compiled. It was more a conversation between geeks than it was software. As OSS becomes more common and more polished, it's also becoming more commercial and more opaque. Firefox and Chromium are both OSS, as is WebKit. (And for that matter, Android.) So all browsers except IE are technically open source. Yet choice is very limited and "improvements" tend to be in the direction of profiteering rather than making the best product. I now need 6-8 plugins just to make FF what it was a couple of years ago. And I'm running v. 36. I've hesitated to update for years now. I never know what they'll break next. It's much worse for most people. Anyone not intimately familiar with about:config and extensions is likely to be stuck with whatever the Mozilla people put on their plate.
I'm imagining that whenever Linux Torvalds steps down it may be only weeks before the top brass at Linux "discover" that what people really want is an ad platform built into the kernel. :)
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