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Just stumbled upon this project, seems rather new as my DNS blocked its domain by default for being too new hehe… Anyone had a chance to try it yet? Its got some hefty promises, like having equally strong privacy features as Librewolf. I’ll be giving it ago at least, almost sounds a bit too good to be true…
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How does this compate to Mullvad Browser?
Think mullvad is better
I was daily driving it but started crashing after an update. I’ll be getting back to it tho, I’m sure there has been like 4 updates in the last 24 hours…
Are they based on Firefox ESR? That made me quit Floorp, it was pretty disappointing to be on a legacy reskin of Firefox.
Probably not, as the image says Zen is based on the latest Firefox and Floorp isn’t.
Floorp is literally running with tons of optimizations and is shifting to the standard FF release instead of long term support build in their next major release. The optimizations though are like front and center, and it has TONS of privacy toggles and features.
That comparison is… Self serving let’s say.
Has anyone tried loading arkenfox user.js on there? That’s the bare minimum for me to use a Firefox-based browser. I’m not using that without hardening.
This looks like it good be a great replacement for Floorp. Thanks for sharing!
I love options but does anybody else wish devs would put their heads together and focus on improving ONE app rather than launch a millon similar forks?
nobody uses iceweasel? For those who don’t know, it is the version of firefox cleaned up by non ‘libre’ code mainly from debian and then taken over by parabola linux. For me it is the best together with mullvad.
I was under the impression IceWeasel changed to IceCat.
And, honestly, from all I could remember, the default protections are so strong a good half of sites doesn’t even work properly lol
Typical GNU maximalism.
(But yeah - it really blocks all the bad stuff and doesn’t do anything you don’t ask it to do, not even call for updates by default)
icecat is based on the LTS version, iceweasel the rolling-release. I have been using iceweasel for almost a year and all the sites I have used work
I see - thanks for clarification!
Got confused because beforehand there was GNU IceWeasel (now GNU IceCat), which is now separate from IceWeasel. Quite a shitshow.
How does this one compare to the current OGs like Mullvad Browser and Librewolf?
Until something comes out saying otherwise, Mullvad browser seems to be the best privacy wise.
I believe Zen is better than default Firefox out of the box, but you can get the same effect in regular Firefox by toggling some options.
I liked Zen for the UI changes. It’s nice having the tabs on the side and a customizable sidebar
Mullvad browser seems to be the best privacy wise.
Only makes sense if you use their VPN. Otherwise, there’s no real advantages over LibreWolf.
Ah good to know
I love Mulls new browser fork of Firefox but on Gos it weakens the security due to a sandbox implementation not being as strong vs Chromium. I hate big corpo who don’t. Brave seems to be the best mobile for now. Sucks but soon as sandboxing issue is fixed. Firefox FTW!
Tried it a bit yesterday on Windows. Opened a Github link in it and Windows Defender killed the app saying it was a threat. Definitely a false positive but seemed odd to see the entire app just die instantly, lol.
More fox the merrier. We have Icecat, Iceweasel, Palemoon, Librewolf, Tor Browser, Mullvad Browser… I’m sure I’m missing many more for desktop.
Well, there is no native .deb package and “There is no plan for official .deb pkg”.
Source:
https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/issues/328That makes sense as packing for a bunch of distros is a lot of work vs just using Flatpak.
I’ve checked it out, and it looks really good, sort of like arc browser. It’s very stylish, and since it’s Firefox-based, supports ublock origin. It’s obviously not finished yet though, so I’ll stay on Floorp until it reaches beta or stable. I’m totally switching once it gets there
Idk much about the privacy features, but I’ve been using it for the past day and it’s way faster and better optimised then floorp.
