I recently saw this news on the technology community https://lemmy.world/post/44224445 and got very disappointed with the way things are going with this browser.

I started using it to do my part against the chromium monopoly, but Mozilla is making too many bad decisions in my opinion.

I’ve heard about forks like Librewolf and Waterfox.

Which alternatives would you recommend? Do you use any of them? What are your thoughts on them?

  • bizarroland@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 months ago

    I like waterfox. I felt librewolf was a little too paranoid with its security permissions for convenient use and waterfox strikes a good balance in my opinion between what firefox is doing and what librewolf is doing.

  • FoundFootFootage78@lemmy.mlEnglish
    142·
    2 months ago

    A browser fork is generally less secure, because they’re slower to get security updates. Firefox gives you the option to remove all the AI and that’s a better approach.

    Alternatively you could switch to Firefox ESR, which is basically just better in every way.

  • pigup@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 months ago

    A lot of people saying Fennec is good on Android. The line at the bottom is a bit of a turn off, isn’t it?

    • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz
      5·
      2 months ago

      Most Firefox forks still have support for Mozilla account sync and the extension malware blacklist, as those are useful features to have. But they do share info with Mozilla.

      • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Most Firefox forks still have support for Mozilla account sync and the extension malware blacklist, as those are useful features to have. But they do share info with Mozilla.

        I believe that Tor browser and Mullvad browser do not phone home to Mozilla. That’s my conclusion after using OpenSnitch for some time. Firefox and LibreWolf do phone home Mozilla at startup.

    • Sonalder@lemmy.ml
      3·
      2 months ago

      Use IronFox (forked from DivestOS Mull Browser) if you want a private FOSS firefox-based browser on Android. Note that it still lacks per-site isolation like every other FF based browser on Android, but this seems to be the most harden option available.

  • plz1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    I’ve been using Waterfox for a year or so, after I got tired of the broken update process for Librewolf on MacOS. No regrets.

  • Chemical Wonka@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    13·
    2 months ago

    It all depends on your threat model. Overall, I don’t recommend any browser based on the Mozilla engine; unfortunately, Chromium-based versions are way ahead when it comes to security. A good option for PC use is to isolate browsers using virtual machines, depending on the case

    • mr_anny@sopuli.xyz
      51·
      2 months ago

      The main security property for any browser is between the chair and desk.