Firefox is messing around with AI, changed their TOS on user data and now the google monopoly case. Basically Im wondering if there is a good firefox alternative?
Right now mostly Zen Browser. I’m a pretty big fan of both Vivaldi and Zen
Floorp plus fennec
Librewolf is a pretty easy drop in replacement. Although you may want to adjust some of the privacy settings, if you’re having issues with websites, they may be too strict.
Librewolf aspirations, firefox reality.
God I’m lazy.
Phone: Mostly IronFox, sometimes I use Vanadium Desktop: LibreWolf
I’ve only used van on graphane so far. What do you like about iron?
I have been using Zen-Browser as my main desktop browser for around almost a year (I think). Initially just wanted to give it a try because it has nice vertical tabs that aren’t clunky or just an extension. It also looks better (imo) than most of the other FF-forks that I have tried.
On Android I use FF since it isn’t Chrome/Chromium and most importantly can turn on basically “Dev Mode” in a similar way that you enable Dev Mode in Android. This allows you to install all normal extensions that you can on desktop FF. Even if that wasn’t an option, uBO is installable (unlike basically every Chromium-based option). Really really helps going to websites while on my phone or tablets not feel like a complete downgrade compared to just turning my desktop on.
There are some Chromium and FF forks for Android that do allow some extensions, just not a lot to pick from. And I don’t want to use Chromium stuff since it further pushes sites to pull an IE and code sites to work only for Chrome/Chromium.
Firefox now has vertical tabs. I for one use them (though in LibreWolf instead)
Librewolf on desktop and IronFox on mobile (GrapheneOS) for daily browsing. I also use Tor Browser or Mullvad Browser on desktop for particularly sensitive browsing.
i use safari on my phone mostly, duck duck go for things a little more private
On Linux, I’m using Firefox as my main browser and Vivaldi as my secondary browser.
On android, some of my devices have Firefox, some of them have Fennec F-Droid and the devices that don’t have very much storage space have Via Browser. If you’re wondering why I have both Firefox and F-Droid’s Fennec, it’s because I used to just use Fennec but then at some point F-Droid announced that Fennec was outdated and it was missing several security updates that were present in Firefox. I switched to Firefox on the devices I use browsers on more actively but I didn’t see a reason to switch all of them.
Floorp, a fancy Firefox fork.
Librewolf on Linux and Orion on iOS, fennec on android
Zen on desktop Vanadium on mobile
Firefox.
Tor Browser (daily driver) because I really hate surveillance capitalism. I have fallbacks but rarely need them. Can recc LibreWolf and Ungoogled Chromium.
Zen, I don’t remember why I picked it
Things that I really like about Zen:
- New tab URL input, it’s a dialog overlay
- Tabs opening as the first instead of the last in the sidebar
- the tab sidebar
- opening external links is magic, they open in an overlay with the option to expand in a tab. This is probably my favourite, because often I need to open a link from an email, do one thing, then go back to the email. This feature keeps me in the context of what I was doing.
yeah I like these features too
