Using firefox but concerned now

Read about some alternatives:

Edit 2/28: It seems there is no general consensus if we should switch and/or to what.

  • boydster@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Been moving over to LibreWolf and I’m pretty happy with it so far. I added NoScript and CanvasBlocker extensions, along with my password manager, and I’m getting settled in with it now.

    • N.E.P.T.R@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      1 month ago

      The fingerprint protections in Librewolf already protect against canvas fingerprinting. You actually make ourself stand out even mkre by using it. Even with RFP disable, ETP still protects against canvas fingerprinting.

  • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Despite my issues with it, I use Chrome. It’s simply too integrated into my life. But I just saw (like 2 minutes ago) from another thread here about Zen Browser and maaaan is it nice.

      • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
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        1 month ago

        IMO, if I’m going to jump from Chrome it might as well be for libre/OSS. No reason to just from proprietary to proprietary.

          • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
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            1 month ago

            Zen Browser is a free and open-source fork of Mozilla Firefox, with its main focus being privacy, customizability and design, and it is licensed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL 2.0).

            Seems to be a fork.

              • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
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                1 month ago

                Simple forks, sure. Independent forks? No. So I guess it depends on if Zen considers itself independent or not, and I can’t seem to find that information.

    • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I use Floorp as my main browser! I like it, it’s very customisable and kind of weirdly Japanese lol

        • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Assuming you mean the “weirdly Japanese” part - it’s hard to say exactly, but it’s made by a small team in Japan and just a kind of vaguely Japanese vibe to it somehow. Sorry I know that’s not very helpful lol

          • ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.comOPEnglish
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            1 month ago

            Haha, I’ve tried it out but haven’t noticed any Japanese feelings to it. Would like to know if you later put words to it :)

  • ColdWater@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    I use Floorp, it’s balanced well between looks and privacy, you can’t even enable data collection if you wanted to

    • Matt@lemdro.idEnglish
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      1 month ago

      The Google backing. See ublock Origin for example. Google wants less effective ad blockers because ads are 90% of their business. Google removed manifest v2, which is needed for good ad blocking capabilities. Now Chromium, and any browser based on it (Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, etc.), also lose it. Some have said they will manually add it back in to their browser, but that will only be possible for so long as Google’s upstream Chromium base further diverges.

      The massive market share of Chromium-based browsers also gives Google near complete control over web standards. There are many websites that use non-standard functionality that only works in Chromium and not Firefox or Safari. Developers also will not adopt new standards unless Google chooses to as well because there would not be enough users to justify it otherwise.

      TLDR: Control over Chromium gives Google extremely strong influence over the web and their interests likely do not have much overlap with yours.

      • Kualk@lemm.ee
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        1 month ago

        All these downvotes really prove your point.

        I think I might switch to that.

        I used Firefox for cross-platform password management. That’s the biggest impact on me.

        • Engywook@lemm.ee
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          1 month ago

          Who cares about downvotes from people which become irrational about a browser engine, lol.

  • InvisibleRasta@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    I gave up on firefox 1 year ago and went to the dark side with Brave. I am really happy with it even tho part of it is closed source.

  • Allero@lemmy.today
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    1 month ago

    Zen for regular activities (I pin all important services), Firefox for browsing for something else.

    GNU IceCat is also amazing as concept, but generally unusable since it ends up blocking too much and manually allowing everything is a hassle. But still, the pages that work are clean, and I love that by default the browser doesn’t do anything without your permission - it doesn’t even connect to update and telemetry services, it has 0 connections on startup, unlike almost anything (qutebrowser does the same, but, unless you are a strong Vim fanboy, you won’t like the experience).

  • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 month ago

    i’ve been using firefox and its predecessors since the very beginning, all the way back to pre-release navigator.

    i do have (and have always had) other browsers installed (using ‘portable’ installations of them, mostly, these days). currently those include vivaldi, opera, librewolf and waterfox. at least one of which is added along side firefox on each desktop (most often also with a firefox dev edition). these are mostly for testing but also to separate specific online tasks into their own browser. the chromium-based ones are used for very specific things requiring addons that don’t work well or at all with firefox.

    unless i need to in order to assist a client, i do not use chrome as provided by google, and i do not use edge from microsoft except for its primary function: downloading another browser when i don’t have a flash drive handy with its installer already downloaded and saved to it.

    having actually read the policy documents in question and considering the intent and purpose of the changes that mozilla is making, i have no plans on changing my primary browser.