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So, which browser now? Please advise.
LibreWolf.
I feel bad for the LibreWolf devs who continue to desperately say that it's not designed to be a general use browser.
Hmmmm, should it not be recommended then? It's been my favorite no bullshit Firefox fork for a while now, but I'm open to suggestions.
I mean, I'm not a dev and I haven't dove deep into the forks in a while. I just remember that they added something to their readme on github during one of the recent "firefox is dead" cycles that said that LibreWolf's focus of privacy first makes it poorly suited as a general use daily driver.
They were getting swamped with people looking for help because the defaults caused certain sites to not function or something.
Ohhh that makes sense. Thank you!
Dude what the fuck?
LibreWolf: every time it's forced to pick between privacy and convenience it picks privacy. If you like that, it's the browser for you.
Waterfox: if you just want Firefox with zero ability to send any data to Mozilla, without necessarily "hardening" anti-fingerprinting features, this is that. It's a downstream fork that removes all telemetry and non-local features (it removed Pocket before Mozilla did).
It's a fair question but people must remember that there are no good options if they leave Firefox: the Gecko-based (i.e. non-Chromium FOSS) alternatives like LibreWolf rely on the Mozilla team upstream to keep them secure. In a sense they're freeloading. IMO that is generally not a sustainable path to be on.