Mozilla is Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox | Also about to go into effect is an updated privacy notice
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100%. I can't decide whether I think the organization being dissolved completely is a good idea or not, but I'm at least open to it.
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Servo isn't a full browser, it's a tech testbed for Mozilla to test out their various rewritten Rust components. I wish they would have promoted it to full browser status, but I think intention was always to take pieces of Servo as they were completed and drop them into Firefox.
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It says they're going to collect usage data. Nothing about opting out.
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+1 for LibreWolf. Dialy driver and not looking back.
Ice Raven on Android.
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More privacy related defaults. Essentially the about:config is more or less filled out for you on Ironfox.
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This is my pair as well
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Damn, maybe I can't read but I didnt find that info on their page.
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As I understand it, these changes don't affect browsers that use FF as a base, so Zen Browser might not be affected.
I've been trying it out this week, and it's good. And can still use all the FF extensions.
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Hmm seems like it's only partially true these days. Looking at their webpage they have a screenshot of their Wikipedia entry (why they didn't just link to it I have no idea) that provides some more up to date info. It was a testbed and they mention a project Quantum where the tech was added into Firefox's Gecko engine. In 2020 Mozilla laid off all their Servo devs and handed the project over to Linux Foundation Europe. It seems like since then they've reenvisioned the project as an embeddable rendering engine similar to WebKit or V8.
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Oh, well thank you for the info. I guess its a good thing Librewolf already exists.
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Look at the links in my comment, and you'll see that all of the categories of telemetry data there can be opted out of with that single switch.
JFC please read the actual documents instead of going "nothing about opting out" when it's literally right there.
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Please let them not ruin Firefox with some bullshit AI. I can't take much more of this, Firefox is one of the last things I have left.
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Good thing LibreWolf and other forks exist, including hard forks like the Goanna browsers.
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LibreWolf, or if you can tolerate some breakage, PaleMoon or Basilisk (I say 'if you can tolerate some breakage' because Goanna is hard-forked from old ESR code, and PaleMoon and Basilisk are both Goanna-based).
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Man all this makes me want to just use Links2 for everything and being a luddite. Complete with cabin in the woods. So frustrating.
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waterfox
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To add to the list:
Mullvad browser (pc only) (removes blobs,proprietary crap, telemetry, and is otherwise hardened and was developed in partnership with the tor org. Some prefs are fine to change but you're best off by leaving as is.
Tor browser - nuff said. If you want anonymity use this. Don't change any prefs.
Arkenfox has a nodded user.is file you can simply drop into your current ff profile dir.
It includes many hidden prefs and settings and allows you to customize for your needs/threat model.Arkenfox's mods are used by other privacy friendly browsers. As are some tor mods.
If you can find your way around about:config and don't mind some learning, you can achieve most of the results of hardened broswers.
There are guides to further harden your ff. Search for Hardened Firefox.
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It's two things:
- Sidebar you can open from the hamburger menu that is basically just a tiny chat UI
- Right click to paste the selected text into the sidebar
If you don't want it, they don't seem to be pushing it any further than that. Just don't click the option in the menus and you'll be fine. (I believe you can also fully disable the option from appearing in settings too)
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There's a links2!?!?!?
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Yes, I gathered that from the previous comment, but thank you for the additional info.
I just hope it doesn't progress further in the future. AI is quite possibly a more catastrophic technological development than nuclear weapons.
