Wondering which forks Lemmings are using. With LibreWolf I get a lot of captchas. Mercury last release, v.129.0.2 , is from 2024?

Or would just using a hardening file like Betterfox be the best option? I am on Ubuntu…

  • @neidu3@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
    15•2 months ago

    I’m using plain old Firefox, mostly because I don’t know enough which forks are available as well as their tldr’s.

    Sidenote: Please tell me there’s a (good) project named Firefork.

    • Lucy :3
      4•2 months ago

      Same, mainly because nightly is a vanilla-firefox-only thing apparently

    • @HotCoffee@lemm.eeOP
      3•2 months ago

      Same here on vanilla firefox. When you hear Chrome so many forks like brave, opera and ungoogled come to mind.

      Brave out of the box is one of the best in privacy. But at the end of the day it’s still chromium :p

      Besides LibreWolf not much talk of others. But Floorp and Zen are looking nice

  • @Wildly_Utilize@infosec.pubEnglish
    9•2 months ago

    I’ve switched from librewolf to mullvad browser, it is tor browser minus the tor network.

    In other words it makes all its users have the same fingerprint so that they can blend together. This is much more effective at detetring tracking than simply hiding or randomizing details like librewolf does.

    In this thread the arkenfox Dev goes as far to say “PS: long term I am hoping we can retire arkenfox (I can’t speak for LW) and just use MB - but they’re just a little too divergent for now”

    https://github.com/mullvad/mullvad-browser/issues/1

    Other options (besides tor browser) are librewolf or Arkenfox, no other firefox forks are reputable from a security/privacy perspective

    • @HotCoffee@lemm.eeOP
      2•2 months ago

      How are the captchas on MB? It’s peak in privacy terms. Have never daily drived it enough to see how it impacts web usability.

      • @MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1•2 months ago

        Yeah, the forks with privacy tweaks often are too much hassle to use with sites not working right or getting a lot of captchas. Firefox already has cookie isolation and stuff like that which is good enough for me.

  • 🔰Hurling⚜️Durling🔱
    8•2 months ago

    Vanilla FF here. LibreWolf was great but too many websites broke under it for some reason and didn’t with vanilla FF even with all the privacy settings turned to 11.

  • @TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub
    6•2 months ago

    Firefox with containers, uBlock Origin, and that extension from the EFF, privacy something. Forks would need to be from someone very trustworthy to gain the same trust Mozilla has earned from me over many years.

      • @TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub
        2•2 months ago

        Mozilla’s Multi-Account Containers extension.

        It lets you define several cookie+local storage spaces, each isolated from the rest, and from private browsing. This way you can open random sites in the Default container, work sites in the “Evil Corp.” container, Furry fanfic sites in the “Guilty pleasures” container, etc.

        With a container-aware cookie manager extension, you can even clear a whole container without affecting the rest.

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashedEnglish
    5•2 months ago

    I’m no security expert, but I feel like forks are gonna have delays in updates, so for security, you should always get as close to the source as possible.

    Firefox is open source and shouldn’t be tracking you anyways.

  • Hal-5700X
    5•2 months ago

    Firefox forks are nothing but Firefox with a user.js file added to it. Just use Vanilla Firefox with a user.js.

  • @Zarxrax@lemmy.world
    3•2 months ago

    I think floorp looks interesting, but I haven’t moved to it yet.

    All I want is something that does a sidebar as well as Vivaldi. Why is a sidebar so difficult?

  • SeekPie
    3•2 months ago

    I use Floorp (mostly because vertical tabs and the customization) with Add Water Flatpak that makes it fit in with the rest of my GTK apps.