Firefox forks
Firefox forks
Wondering which forks Lemmings are using. With LibreWolf I get a lot of captchas. Mercury last release, v.129.0.2 , is from 2024?
Or would just using a hardening file like Betterfox be the best option? I am on Ubuntu....
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Vanilla Firefox. I trust Mozilla more than I trust the devopers of any fork.
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Yeah same. I like Floorp, but regular Firefox is where it's at.
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I don't. They're really pushing for AI right now. We need a good fork.
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I use libre wolf . It's just perfect point to not be a border . For people complaining about it breaking stuff or saying is just a user.js , read the documentation
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I've switched from librewolf to mullvad browser, it is tor browser minus the tor network.
In other words it makes all its users have the same fingerprint so that they can blend together. This is much more effective at detetring tracking than simply hiding or randomizing details like librewolf does.
In this thread the arkenfox Dev goes as far to say "PS: long term I am hoping we can retire arkenfox (I can't speak for LW) and just use MB - but they're just a little too divergent for now"
https://github.com/mullvad/mullvad-browser/issues/1
Other options (besides tor browser) are librewolf or Arkenfox, no other firefox forks are reputable from a security/privacy perspective
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How are the captchas on MB? It's peak in privacy terms. Have never daily drived it enough to see how it impacts web usability.
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That mostly depends on your IP reputation, don't think the browser itself is going to affect it much
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Zen Browser is rather decent.
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I was coming to comment about Zen Browser. It is Firefox with better UI.
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Agreed, I started using it a few months back and it quickly replaced the base Firefox for me.
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I'm using plain old Firefox, mostly because I don't know enough which forks are available as well as their tldr's.
Sidenote: Please tell me there's a (good) project named Firefork.
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Same, mainly because nightly is a vanilla-firefox-only thing apparently
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Same here on vanilla firefox. When you hear Chrome so many forks like brave, opera and ungoogled come to mind.
Brave out of the box is one of the best in privacy. But at the end of the day it's still chromium :p
Besides LibreWolf not much talk of others. But Floorp and Zen are looking nice
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Zen has been pretty nice, otherwise just Firefox.
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This. For 99% of people, firefox is fine. At least zen offers a new interface.
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Yeah, the forks with privacy tweaks often are too much hassle to use with sites not working right or getting a lot of captchas. Firefox already has cookie isolation and stuff like that which is good enough for me.
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I'm using Firefox, I heard it was the biggest fork of Firefox.
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Damn son, Firefoxception
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Vanilla FF here. LibreWolf was great but too many websites broke under it for some reason and didn't with vanilla FF even with all the privacy settings turned to 11.
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Firefox with containers, uBlock Origin, and that extension from the EFF, privacy something. Forks would need to be from someone very trustworthy to gain the same trust Mozilla has earned from me over many years.
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what are containers in firefox ?
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Mozilla’s Multi-Account Containers extension.
It lets you define several cookie+local storage spaces, each isolated from the rest, and from private browsing. This way you can open random sites in the Default container, work sites in the “Evil Corp.” container, Furry fanfic sites in the “Guilty pleasures” container, etc.
With a container-aware cookie manager extension, you can even clear a whole container without affecting the rest.
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Firefox forks are nothing but Firefox with a user.js file added to it. Just use Vanilla Firefox with a user.js.
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I'm no security expert, but I feel like forks are gonna have delays in updates, so for security, you should always get as close to the source as possible.
Firefox is open source and shouldn't be tracking you anyways.
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I use the vanilla FF but with this theme applied:
https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix
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Zen browser
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I use Floorp (mostly because vertical tabs and the customization) with Add Water Flatpak that makes it fit in with the rest of my GTK apps.
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I use Floorp for the sleeping tabs
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I think floorp looks interesting, but I haven't moved to it yet.
All I want is something that does a sidebar as well as Vivaldi. Why is a sidebar so difficult?
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I think Zen browser is de Vivaldi of Firefox forks. Looks pretty clean too.
Floorp also looks promising. I'll have to try both
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I use Firefox which is a Floorp fork... noticeble faster than vanilla FF
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Try using Chameleon extension to spoof the headers to look like vanilla FF on Windows.
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Firedragon which is a fork of Floorp... love it
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Is that the Garuda fork? My fav arch distro, very user friendly even more so than endeavour
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Yeap!
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