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Firefox is messing around with AI, changed their TOS on user data and now the google monopoly case. Basically Im wondering if there is a good firefox alternative?

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 19 minutes ago

Librewolf on desktop and IronFox on mobile (GrapheneOS) for daily browsing. I also use Tor Browser or Mullvad Browser on desktop for particularly sensitive browsing.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 48 minutes ago

i use safari on my phone mostly, duck duck go for things a little more private

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Firefox because I just installed Nix and can't figure out how to make anything else work 😂

Usually I go with a firefox fork. Waterfox previously, almost since it first came out. But I've been hearing a lot about Floorp for a while now and I think sometime soon my brain might stop screaming "you CAN'T install that! it's called FLOORP!" and let me try it. I've tried Librewolf but it's a hassle to configure so it doesn't break every website (not a criticism, I like that it does that by default, but it's a hassle)

[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

Librewolf is my daily driver. Ironfox on mobile. If I have to use a Chromium based browser, then I use Brave.

Kagi as my search engine in case you were wondering 👀

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Ungoogle Chromium on Linux and Vivaldi on Android!

[-] [email protected] -2 points 5 hours ago

I switched to Chrome about 10 years ago because Safari was buggy and lost all my tabs one time too many. Also it made it easier to move between platforms. Still using it now. The main thing I wish it had is a visual tab overview like Safari does.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Firefox and Librewolf.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Mostly vivaldi, occasionally firefox on desktop. I wish we had more options with better longevity.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Using many. Firefox, waterfox, librewolf, Vivaldi, k-meleon and...errr...well....edge. On win, Linux and android.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago

Firefox ESR with user js and some of my personal modifications, ESR because I don't have to worry about new stuff for 2 years. Another idea if you don't want to worry about new stuff in browser is using Mullvad as regular browser, all you have to do is turn of always private mode but if you don't want to mess around I'd recommend LibreWolf or Waterfox.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago

LibreWolf for daily personal, Mullvad Browser most private check EFF tests coveryourtracks.com or TOR, Brave mobile tweaked.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 23 hours ago
[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

Librewolf on Linux and Orion on iOS, fennec on android

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

LibreWolf is Firefox without the bullshit.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago

Librewolf and water Fox are the best Firefox alternatives.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

LibreWolf on desktop, IronFox on Mobile.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Tor Browser (daily driver) because I really hate surveillance capitalism. I have fallbacks but rarely need them. Can recc LibreWolf and Ungoogled Chromium.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

@Turd_Ferg PC (Linux): Librewolf for some things (fediverse, news outlets, mail providers, etc), Waterfox for other things (especially sites/platforms where I need to write Portuguese, because Librewolf's "Resist Fingerprinting" breaks accent keys), upstream Firefox for more mainstream things (government services), as well as Lagrange for Gopher and Geminispace.

Smartphone (Android): Fennec, with native Chrome active against my will for WebViews from certain apps (governmental and banking apps, for example) that require Chrome For My Security™.

It's been a while since I ditched Chromium-based browsers, although Firefox has some Chromium things inside its code. I'm waiting for whatever browsers that could bring third-party browser engines besides Chromium and Firefox-engine (yeah, there are Pale Moon, Basilisk, Safari/Webkit, among other browsers which are neither Chromium nor Firefox-based, but I'm talking about a browser as compatible as possible with features such as WebBluetooth, WebGL, WASM and other things as they can prove useful for personally-developed projects/self-hosted services).

[-] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Super informative, thank you

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

til of waterfox and fennec; thanks for the reply.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Firefox on both Android and Linux

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Librewolf, Ungoogled Chromium flatpak for anything that doesn't work in Librewolf, and Fennec on Android

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Safari. It’s really good! :D

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Zen on desktop Vanadium on mobile

[-] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Zen, I don't remember why I picked it

[-] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

Things that I really like about Zen:

  • New tab URL input, it's a dialog overlay
  • Tabs opening as the first instead of the last in the sidebar
  • the tab sidebar
  • opening external links is magic, they open in an overlay with the option to expand in a tab. This is probably my favourite, because often I need to open a link from an email, do one thing, then go back to the email. This feature keeps me in the context of what I was doing.
[-] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

yeah I like these features too

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

On Linux, I'm using Firefox as my main browser and Vivaldi as my secondary browser.

On android, some of my devices have Firefox, some of them have Fennec F-Droid and the devices that don't have very much storage space have Via Browser. If you're wondering why I have both Firefox and F-Droid's Fennec, it's because I used to just use Fennec but then at some point F-Droid announced that Fennec was outdated and it was missing several security updates that were present in Firefox. I switched to Firefox on the devices I use browsers on more actively but I didn't see a reason to switch all of them.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I use zen browser. It has some quirks, but overall the best browser I have found. At least for me.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Vivaldi, it has good features and isn't owned by a crazy corpo

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Me too. Can't remember why?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I just switched back to Brave after using Firefox for a couple years. I switched away from Brave over the Manifest V3 thing but it turns out they're preserving compatibility with V2 extensions and their built-in shields have gotten pretty good at blocking most things without even needing uBO. I had lots of little issues with Firefox that are like known-issues that have been around for years or things I haven't been able to find solutions to, so I was glad to switch back. Brave isn't perfect either, but.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

The thing about braves adblock is, it ain't customizable at all. For sites that are constantly changing, with Firefox and ublock, you can somewhat debug whats wrong. With brave, you'll have to wait for an update on their end.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Huh, I didn't think about that. But I can just install uBO and disable the built-in ones if it ever becomes a problem, right? I thought I saw an option about disabling them.

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