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?

  • FoundFootFootage78@lemmy.mlEnglish
    121·
    3 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.

  • bizarroland@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    3 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.

    • imacatnotaman@lemmy.ml
      1·
      3 months ago

      It’s great. The only thing stopping my from using it full time is that no Firefox-based browsers work with the web office editor within my NextCloud instance.

  • pigup@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 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?

    • Sonalder@lemmy.ml
      3·
      3 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
    2·
    3 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.