What's your Firefox Alternative?

[xanthrax@lemmy.world]

The other day, I made a post about Firefox'es web extensions, specifically for YouTube. A lot of people pointed out Mozilla's recent TOS update, which pertains to selling personal data. I noticed there were no suggestions, though. What alternative would you suggest, Lemmy?

[oprahsedcreature@lemmy.ml]

Librewolf

[Guest]

What are the advantages?

[Guest]

Is Vivaldi better with its TOS?

[rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de]

Fork of FireFox,
with a focus on data privacy:
https://librewolf.net/

I'd also like to add IronFox,
similar to LibreWolf, but for mobile:
https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/

[davel@lemmy.ml]

Leaving Firefox and its derivatives is mostly out of the frying pan and into the fire. Proprietary browsers are worse, and Chrome and its derivatives are worse, thanks to Manifest V3.

That leaves Firefox/Gecko derivatives, like LibreWolf and possibly some Safari/WebKit-based browsers like GNOME Web.

[standarduser@lemm.ee]

Just switched to it the other day. I liked the letterboxing and its assistance to reduce fingerprinting and OOTB ublock origin. And the familiarity of Firefox made it an easier transition from reg Firefox.

[rbn@sopuli.xyz]

I still use Firefox on PC and Fennec on my mobile. So far I have no plans to change that.

[dirk@lemmy.ml]

Currently I'm angrily sticking with Firefox. But once Floorp switches to the current version of Firefox as base I'll totally try this one. According to what I found, they will switch with the next major release.

[buboscandiacus@mander.xyz]

Isn’t it absolutely proprietary?

[dirk@lemmy.ml]

Seems like not entirely. But oh well. It looked so good on YouTube. Especially the customizations and alternate UIs.

[fcuks@piefed.social]

Zen Browser is pretty nice

[Guest]

I switched to firefox-esr and will be happy to wait for tab groups and vertical tabs in the June/July version.

[aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I’m with you. I have Waterfox and zen installed but mostly use zen

[aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

From what I know, librewolf is just a script. Sm it will be susceptible to Firefox’s policies

[happytimeharry@lemm.ee]

Much better

[rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de]

After a brief scroll through their source repo, I think it's a set of patches which gets applied by a script while compiling the browser from source.

So it's unlikely that it will be susceptible,
unless they forget to patch some telemetry out during a release, which is unlikely, since the projects goal is data privacy + security.