Which browser do you use and why?
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Who cares about downvotes from people which become irrational about a browser engine, lol.
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Firefox. Google removed a valuable addon from their store without justifiable reason and kept it removed because there's not sufficient backlash.
The addon is AdNauseam. It's an improvement on uBlock Origin that clicks adds in addition to hiding them.
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Maybe it's just me, but I can't really see how they can be better beyond philosophical reasons.
I guess bringing back stuff like the proper dropdown menu we had in the 2000s would be an example, but I don't expect most of them to do something like that.
I expect most of them to have some kind of gimmick that isn't relevant to how I use a web browser.
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Practical response.
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The biggest part of people use Chrome-based browsers.
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Firefox. I'm not going to help the Chromium monopoly.
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Privacy, simply better, better anti-fingerprinting.
Sure you can do it with stock Firefox but it's just simpler to have a pre-hardened browser -
Didn't Waterfox get bought out by an ad company?
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Even when using forks of Firefox you are contributing to the Mozilla project and can support it as well
Using librewolf is better than using chrome in term of support for the main devs Mozilla -
Zen as main driver because of its features that are on par with Chromium-based_Vivaldi browser_, and LibreWolf on "older" machines or systems that require stability/consistency. Both are awesome to me.
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Nice, I was unaware, thanks!
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yes and then sold and FOSS again!
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What privacy and fingerprinting concerns are there with Firefox?
simply better
Lol. That's not a reason, ya goof.
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The thing is that it's not very common for people who use a fork to donate or encourage contributions to Mozilla... most of the people who go for forks do it because they do not trust Mozilla in the first place or don't agree with the decisions they take with the Firefox project.
So if this became the majority of users, I don't think Mozilla would keep developing Firefox, at least not at the level that they are now. In fact, I think even today Mozilla is not seeing much gain in maintaining Firefox, since they are now starting side projects to make money in other ways.
If there was a separate foundation that was started by all these forks to keep a foundation where to build on that isn't connected to Mozilla.. then that would be good in my book. But as things stand, those projects depend on Mozilla.
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Mull Browser != Mullvad Browser. Just to be clear.
Mull browser is from DivestOS and deprecated. Firefox fork.
Mullvad Browser is still alive and kicking, developed by Mullvad the VPN provider. Developed in partnership with Tor Browser, also a fork of Firefox.
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Well, the hardening, just as with Tor Browser, does break some sites. It comes preinstalled with NoScript and uBlock Origin, the former of which you will either have to learn how to use or disable, depending on your wants for privacy. While it doesn't include some of the anti-features of base Firefox, it is still based on Firefox so it will have similar performance for similar tasks.
Personally, I use Mullvad for most of my browsing, and Firefox for a few specific things (like staying logged into site long-term and such).
It's available as a flatpak via Flathub for an easy installation, otherwise you can check https://mullvad.net/en/browser/linux for distro-specific installation instructions.
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Explore the Arkenfox user.js and you'll see all things that can be improved in Firefox
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You are absolutely correct, I apologize.
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Same. I'm not worried, just confused by the new language. It seems unnecessary, but I could end up being flat wrong.
I wish Mozilla would refocus on improving Firefox instead of the AI nonsense they've pursued lately. They havent been perfect, but if i'm going to give any faceless entity the benefit of the doubt, it's Mozilla.
That said, i want the forks to thrive. Librewolf is pretty good. I might check out Pale Moon again to see what has(n't) changed.
Waterfox is also good from what i remember. I used a build of it with KDE global menu support on OpenSuse for years, and i was happy with it the whole time.
