Which browser do you use and why?
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Using firefox but concerned now
Zen for regular activities (I pin all important services), Firefox for browsing for something else. GNU IceCat is amazing as concept, but generally unusable since it ends up blocking too much and manually allowing everything is a hassle.
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Using firefox but concerned now
I have only tried Zen from your list and it's been nice so far. The most recent update last night broke something with the multi account containers, but other than that it's been smooth sailing for months.
Ladybird looks promising but it's not out yet. Planning to try switching to it when it's out.
Arc is apparently dead (or dying), but it was chromium based, VC funded, and Zen does most of the same things anyway. https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/24/24279020/browser-company-ai-browser-arc
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Using firefox but concerned now
Firefox. I can't imagine they would do something stupid like this with the little marketshare they have, but nothing surprises me anymore.
Does ublock work with any of these alternatives?
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Using firefox but concerned now
Librewolf (I love the privacy) Tor browser (To browser onion sites/View webgl websites or privacyintrusive sites) Cromite (Mobile only)
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Using firefox but concerned now
Librewolf, which is great, but I have been desperate for alternatives for a long time now. I also use Falkon and Gnome Web on the side and those are ok, but unfortunately not on the level of FireFox and its ilk. I've been considering WaterFox and GNU IceCat also, but honestly the overall situation is depressing. Currently, Librewolf ticks most of my boxes, but every browser has some issue or another that I'm not keen on. I have no idea what the next step is.
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Librewolf (I love the privacy) Tor browser (To browser onion sites/View webgl websites or privacyintrusive sites) Cromite (Mobile only)
I'm curious, how do you find your site's? Is the whole ecosystem sketch?
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Firefox. I can't imagine they would do something stupid like this with the little marketshare they have, but nothing surprises me anymore.
Does ublock work with any of these alternatives?
IIRC, it's one of the few add-ons that does work with Librewolf.
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Been moving over to LibreWolf and I'm pretty happy with it so far. I added NoScript and CanvasBlocker extensions, along with my password manager, and I'm getting settled in with it now.
The fingerprint protections in Librewolf already protect against canvas fingerprinting. You actually make ourself stand out even mkre by using it. Even with RFP disable, ETP still protects against canvas fingerprinting.
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Chromium browsers are affected by any changes to chrome, I wonder if the same is true for Firefox forks.
No, because the Mozilla's new policy doesnt apply to forks.
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Using firefox but concerned now
Ungoogled chromium. It's faster then firefox in nearly everything I test, doesn't have stupid issues like not rendering gradients properly.
I use firefox on my desktop for one single reason, and that's because there is literally nothing for chromium, that is remotely close to simple tab groups.
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Using firefox but concerned now
Brave, FOSS. Because it's the best one I have found for my use case.
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What’s wrong with Chromium? License or Google backing?
Nothing. Just echo chamber hysteria.
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Using firefox but concerned now
Uninstalled firefox yesterday. Trying out vivaldi, the company lead has a history of advocacy. Might give librewolf a go soon, need a browser that ping pongs mobile and desktop seamlessly, has ad blocks available and a flatpack.
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Using firefox but concerned now
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Using firefox but concerned now
I'm a Firefox user and I'm not really that bothered about this tos changes. If they do mess things up I'll probably just switch to some fork that doesn't do the fuckery.
Wouldn't be surprised if Mint packages Firefox with it (whatever "it" is) disabled, since they build Thunderbird without telemetry.
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Using firefox but concerned now
I use Firefox. I don't like the changes but I don't want to use any downstream browsers and I don't think any of the not-downstream alternatives do better.
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Using firefox but concerned now
Mullvad browser, simply I used to used hardened Firefox but a pre-hardened one is so much more efficient
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I use Firefox. I don't like the changes but I don't want to use any downstream browsers and I don't think any of the not-downstream alternatives do better.
They are better in most of the case, Firefox only is not that good...
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They are better in most of the case, Firefox only is not that good...
I just don't care for downstream projects on browsers, with software so critical I want to get the updates in as fast as possible. I know some of those mentioned in OP had issues with that in the past. And not much reason to anyway for me to switch, Firefox works perfectly fine for me, so there's not much added benefit.
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I just don't care for downstream projects on browsers, with software so critical I want to get the updates in as fast as possible. I know some of those mentioned in OP had issues with that in the past. And not much reason to anyway for me to switch, Firefox works perfectly fine for me, so there's not much added benefit.
Understand your point of view but in fact the 2 problems you mentioned are mainly not problems :
1 - Updates? The main downstream browsers received updates the same time as Firefox the same day and sometime the same hour
2 - Benefits? The benefits are mainly under the hood, removing Mozilla telemetry and annoying features (account, pocket...) AND the biggest advantages are the gain in term of privacy due the increase of anti fingerprinting methods
