Using firefox but concerned now

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

  • SunRed@discuss.tchncs.de
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    55 minutes ago

    Currently on Firefox with Betterfox and Lepton. I might change it to Librewolf as a base for its better defaults. Ungoogled Chromium flatpak when I need a Chromium browser. Fennec on GrapheneOS for its extension support even if it might not be as secure compared to Vanadium.

  • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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    6 hours ago

    I use FireDragon, because it’s the only browser I could find that has a vertical tab-bar that collapses. Supposedly Zen does it, too, but I couldn’t get it to work.

    FireDragon also has a toolbar to the side with a notepad and other neat stuff. I haven’t used that yet, but it could be cool.

  • Patrik@lemm.ee
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    6 hours ago

    Fennec on mobile, haven’t gotten around to replacing FF on Desktop yet.

  • Xed@lemm.ee
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    15 hours ago

    I used to use variations of Firefox but I got tired of websites not being compatible so sometimes I use chrome 🤷

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    1 day ago

    I’ve been using Zen for the past couple days and it’s absolutely spectacular. I really really been enjoying it.

    It claims to be a fork of Firefox but there’s still Firefox under the hood and you can tell. But I find that it runs significantly faster than Firefox standard. So who knows. The author seems to be making it as ambiguous as possible so I would think that it’s a soft fork that’s basically stock Firefox with a few minor changes and a new look.

  • InvisibleRasta@lemmy.ml
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    18 hours ago

    Waterfox is based on esr, so quite outdated. Just use librewolf and some css. You have firefox-one that will make it look pretty and similar to zen. Zen is no good if you care about privacy.

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    1 day ago

    I have found Mozilla’s sync across devices handy, but now I’m in the process of moving over to using Vanadium on my GrapheneOS phone and FireDragon on desktop.

    FireDragon started out as a Librewolf fork, but is more recently based on Floorp. They are still keeping in sync with Librewolf’s privacy enhancements, with some of their own thrown in. I like that the default search engine is Garuda’s instance of Searx, with Whoogle as another option if you don’t want to self host. FireDragon will also sync your Firefox account off Garuda’s server instance if you like (which would be more useful if I weren’t going with a Chromium fork on mobile). The Garuda project is certainly looking more trustworthy than Mozilla these days.

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    2 days ago

    Zen, absolutely love the workflow and the fact that it is not chromium based.

    Waiting excitedly for ladybird, it is already very impressive but still years left until it is daily drive able

    • dino@discuss.tchncs.de
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      7 hours ago

      Basically a firefox skin, although they have a VPN as a sponsor, did somebody did a thorough check on that browser?

    • Fluxxr@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 day ago

      I like zen a lot but I’m struggling to drag a tab from one window to another. The sidebar always collapses on the target window before the tab gets there. Any tips?

      • ___@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 day ago

        Perhaps right click on the sidebar -> disable compact mode? I haven’t had any issues moving tabs between windows, but then again I keep the sidebar persistent

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    1 day ago

    Firefox, while I dislike their new FAQ and TOS I build it from source and the TOS does not apply.

    I wish they would make Firefox Sync a self hostable product that they also host for you for like 5 bucks a month. I would pay for it (or any other way to directly give money to FX instead of Mozilla) like I do for Bitwarden.

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        1 day ago

        Yes, but I actually would pay them for their services if they guarantee me that they will use that money to improve Firefox and Firefox services. I want to be a premium user of Firefox, but instead of trying to monetize their core userbase they annihilate them.

        I actually like their advertising business idea and their other services and I understand that they need money but is whay they are doing right now really the best way?