So, I found some Firefox forks. Those would be: floorp, zen browser, tor browser and librewolf. Could anyone help me decide which one to use?
Zen will give you the most functionality. Librewolf will give you the most privacy and security.
Tor Browser will give you most privacy and security, but it can be considered overkill for everyday use. Librewolf takes second place.
Well. I don’t really think of TOR as a browser but I digress.
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Zen browser was my favourite but this put me off:
I’m pretty sure that they removed a lot of the telemetry in a very recent update, so I’m not sure how it stacks up now.
Librewolf.
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mullvad for looking shit up on ecommerce sites with new ID each time
Is it sufficient? I’d always assumed it was easily targetable with the IP so I started using TOR for that purpose
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I see.
tor has geo location issues.
Could you explain what you mean with this? I’m not sure I understand
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Oh I get it now, for me that’s not a problem since I’m also in the EU, but I can see why it’s an issue, I do have a VPN too, but barely use it
I use Librewolf as my daily driver for most things, then Mulvad when I don’t want any fingerprinting.
Mulvad is highly underated IMO.
Mullvad Browser isn’t bullet proof, it will not prevent fingerprinting entirely, though it makes it less reliable, especially if it isn’t sophisticated.
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I’m using Waterfox. Been great so far.
I just started using it myself. I can’t see a difference between it and Firefox, which is a good thing because it means sites aren’t breaking. But it also makes me wonder just how much more private it is.
I’ve been trained by experience that privacy is strongly correlated to web sites not working properly.
As far as I know, the only thing Waterfox does (differently from Firefox) is not collecting telemetry and having uBlock Origin installed by default. I haven’t noticed sites breaking either (at least, any more than they did on FF).
It didn’t have uBlock origin installed by default on Android. But, regardless, it seems fine so far!
+1 for Waterfox, for some reason it works 100% of the time on my usual websites, whereas Librefox has quirks or just fail (because DRM for what I understand)
Plus it seems Waterfox is a bit more professionaly build and maintained, the team do tell you how they make money from side projects like searches, that is not in the browser core, good enough for me.
My setup is librewolf as main, ungoogled chromium as backup for problematic sites.
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Mullvad browser is also another great Privacy web browser but probably be more suited if you have a active subscription to mullvad VPN since it’s point is to blend in with other mullvad VPN users.
I’ve been using Zen and Librewolf, I recommend both of them but Librewolf will give you the privacy out of the box. A friend of mine uses Floorp and he seems happy with it.
I was using (and really liked) Librewolf until I heard that they were having trouble keeping up with Firefox updates. Now I’m using the Phonenix configurations for Firefox and keeping the FF updates separate from the privacy configuration settings. Avoiding forks lets you get the best of both worlds.
https://github.com/celenityy/Phoenix https://codeberg.org/celenity/Phoenix/wiki/Comparison
In terms of use, librewolf feels exactly the same as firefox. I chose librewolf but zen is my 2nd pick try them both.
waterfox doesnt get regular updates, look at their github, theres one guy. (not specifically adressed to you OP)
i use librewolf and just turned some options on again so it doest delete everything when i shut it down.
Anyone know of a desktop equivalent to IronFox?
prob librewolf i use ironfox on mobile and librewolf on my pc and its very similar
I meant more on the security front than UI, but Librewolf does mention “security” 5 times on their page so I guess they are probably more secure than base FireFox.
it is has a lot more setrings to
I can’t believe Javascript on PDF’s is enabled on default on Firefox. NOBODY wants that.
