Wondering which forks Lemmings are using. With LibreWolf I get a lot of captchas. Mercury last release, v.129.0.2 , is from 2024?

Or would just using a hardening file like Betterfox be the best option? I am on Ubuntu....

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[–] 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Vanilla Firefox. I trust Mozilla more than I trust the devopers of any fork.

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't. They're really pushing for AI right now. We need a good fork.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That does not affect my opinion of Mozilla one bit. If anything, I applaud them for integrating AI into the browser. Saves me the trouble of having to type in a URL and login to a website to access an AI; I can just hit Ctrl+Alt+X now.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Zen Browser is rather decent.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'm using plain old Firefox, mostly because I don't know enough which forks are available as well as their tldr's.

    Sidenote: Please tell me there's a (good) project named Firefork.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 years ago

    Same here on vanilla firefox. When you hear Chrome so many forks like brave, opera and ungoogled come to mind.

    Brave out of the box is one of the best in privacy. But at the end of the day it's still chromium :p

    Besides LibreWolf not much talk of others. But Floorp and Zen are looking nice

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I've switched from librewolf to mullvad browser, it is tor browser minus the tor network.

    In other words it makes all its users have the same fingerprint so that they can blend together. This is much more effective at detetring tracking than simply hiding or randomizing details like librewolf does.

    In this thread the arkenfox Dev goes as far to say "PS: long term I am hoping we can retire arkenfox (I can't speak for LW) and just use MB - but they're just a little too divergent for now"

    https://github.com/mullvad/mullvad-browser/issues/1

    Other options (besides tor browser) are librewolf or Arkenfox, no other firefox forks are reputable from a security/privacy perspective

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Vanilla FF here. LibreWolf was great but too many websites broke under it for some reason and didn't with vanilla FF even with all the privacy settings turned to 11.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Zen has been pretty nice, otherwise just Firefox.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This. For 99% of people, firefox is fine. At least zen offers a new interface.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Firefox with containers, uBlock Origin, and that extension from the EFF, privacy something. Forks would need to be from someone very trustworthy to gain the same trust Mozilla has earned from me over many years.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    what are containers in firefox ?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    Mozilla’s Multi-Account Containers extension.

    It lets you define several cookie+local storage spaces, each isolated from the rest, and from private browsing. This way you can open random sites in the Default container, work sites in the “Evil Corp.” container, Furry fanfic sites in the “Guilty pleasures” container, etc.

    With a container-aware cookie manager extension, you can even clear a whole container without affecting the rest.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    I use the vanilla FF but with this theme applied:
    https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix

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    [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Firefox forks are nothing but Firefox with a user.js file added to it. Just use Vanilla Firefox with a user.js.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I think floorp looks interesting, but I haven't moved to it yet.

    All I want is something that does a sidebar as well as Vivaldi. Why is a sidebar so difficult?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm using Firefox, I heard it was the biggest fork of Firefox.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Zen browser

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago*

    I use Floorp (mostly because vertical tabs and the customization) with Add Water Flatpak that makes it fit in with the rest of my GTK apps.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Try using Chameleon extension to spoof the headers to look like vanilla FF on Windows.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Firedragon which is a fork of Floorp... love it

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I use libre wolf . It's just perfect point to not be a border . For people complaining about it breaking stuff or saying is just a user.js , read the documentation

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I use Floorp for the sleeping tabs

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