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?
At the moment I just stick with firefox, as long as I can disable all the ai and telemetry bs. However in a few years Ladybird could be an alternative. They’re developing a whole new browser including the engine from scratch. Looks promising to me.
I highly recommend Edge…bwahahaha…lightening the mood.
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.
Guys, instead of a popularity contest, it’d be more productive if we listed the reasons for choosing one or another.
I like that idea, it provides information and gives you something to research as well. IDK shit about shit though so I’m going to keep my mouth shut lol.
LibreWolf my beloved browser
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.
On Linux, I use Waterfox. On Android, I use Fennec. Both much lighter than Firefox, and Waterfox specifically doesn’t need to be installed on Linux (my biggest concern in Linux - most is installed to the system), and the dev seems to be slowly separating Waterfox from the Firefox base, instead of keeping it as a stripped down Firefox. On the privacy side of things, not knowledgeable enough myself to audit them, but haven’t seen any scandals on either yet.
I just switched to Librewolf from Firefox, would you recommend moving to Waterfox instead ?
Haven’t tested LibreWolf so can’t compare them
I use Zen on desktop, Fennec on Android. I also tried Librewolf/ Ironfox combo.
Librewolf, Librewolf all the way. It’s a bit heavy-duty with the privacy, but that can be toned down in settings.
I use librewolf
LibreWolf. It works 😬
Desktop - Librewolf
Android - Ironfox
Desktop: librewolf. I’ve not found anything remotely comparable for Android.
I just use Fennec on android
What do you feel about IronFox?
Sorry I deleted my post because I was mistaken. I haven’t tried it.
Worth a shot, recommended by several in the comments here as well.
Librewolf for Linux Desktop and Fennec for AOSP
