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What would it take for a fork of Firefox to become the main branch one must wonder? I know I switched to LibreWolf and IronFox when this all started, not FireFox. Now I’m hearing WaterFox works on the platforms I use (is it as good?)
Neither of these projects are doing core feature development on the browser engine though, as far as I can tell. I guess what it would take is a heap of cash for them to really compete.
I see LadyBird and the grumbles about their sponsors, but at least they are really doing work from the core rather than modding.
WaterFox is just Firefox without the Mozilla parts people don’t like (AI, sponsored content, telemetry). It is not as hardened as Librewolf, which can break sites with it’s anti-fingerprinting techniques. It’s a perfect browser for casual use (and widest compatibility).
I wish projects like this would offer simple “security profile” settings that would allow you to batch change the relevant settings between the most common suggested settings for different usecases.
Just “General use” and “Privacy” profiles would go a long way.
Unfortunately it’s not that simple. At least that’s the message I got from reading Librewolf’s documentation out of curiosity.
Honestly, Librewolf is pretty functional. It used to break all kinds of stuff, but now it’s just a couple of sites with fingerprint protection issues, and there’s a couple-of-clicks way to disable the strict fingerprint protection on any site you care about where it’s causing problems.
This is a rant about opt out not being perfect, afaiu. Firefox still provides better AI control than alternatives, in that you can choose the model, including a private one. Is this wrong?
Can we talk about how they recently shoved perplexity in there as an included search engine?
Please I don’t want to lose Firefox too 😰
This is what you want
It’s literally the latest FF but with the telemetry and AI ripped out, and proper adblocks etc
If anyone tried Librewolf previously and found it too restrictive, I changed 2 settings that were game changers for me. I disabled fingerprint blocking and installed canvas blocker instead. Then I enabled Mozilla sync. Bam, perfect web browser for me at least.
Ya I also use librewolf and I find it fairly intuitive to start at a more hardened place and enable convenience as needed. Though these days I find most sites work great even with full fingerprint protection.
I have to disable the fingerprinting because it fucks up time detection. Like if I look at sports schedules it has me in a radically different time zone. Canvas blocker doesn’t cause that problem for me.
Too late!
I bet you use brave
Vivaldi is pretty nice
Not an option anymore since they stopped supporting Manifest V2. uBlock Origin is mandatory for any browser today.
Vivaldi is chromium, though.
