Asking after the privacy debacle and manifest. I'm not keeping up closely, but iirc Firefox is the browser recommended because of Ublock. After the privacy data issue I've noticed broken trust from Firefox users, recommendations in favor of switching browsers, and predictions saying Firefox is going downhill fast and that their forks won't be maintained for much longer.

So I'm here asking the seasoned sailors' thoughts, aye. Is this just a storm passing by or are you really considering jumping ship?

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[–] zonnewin@feddit.nl 22 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I would say no. With the recent debacle the writing is on the wall. Mozilla is not taking our privacy seriously. So, I have switched away from vanilla Firefox.

I would recommend using a fork instead: LibreWolf, or Floorp, or Zen; and Ironfox on Android. Mullvad Browser is another option.

[–] other_cat@lemmy.zip 2 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

How come I never see people recommending Waterfox? Is it just not popular or is there some major flaw?

[–] Korrok@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 hours ago

That's the one I'm using and it looks virtually the same to Firefox. I'm not sure if there's some issue with it either, I was scouring the comments for someone recommending it.

[–] Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Floorp is kinda sketchy these days, it went closed source, then maybe reopen sourced. I would say Zen is the better pick. and on Android Fennec is a great Privacy fork of Firefox.

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Not maybe. It is open source. It never went close sourced, Dev made it source available till they figured out the future of the project.

Also I won't recommend zen cause it's in beta. It's way too unstable and the dev is no better at handling situations like above. But if you dont mind stability, zen is definitely really good feature wise

[–] pr0sp3kt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Ironfox breaks some things for me. I prefer fennec on Android...