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:
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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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Librewolf.
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!
In terms of use, librewolf feels exactly the same as firefox. I chose librewolf but zen is my 2nd pick try them both.
My setup is librewolf as main, ungoogled chromium as backup for problematic sites.
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.
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 use librewolf and arkenfox
Anyone know of a desktop equivalent to IronFox?
prob librewolf i use ironfox on mobile and librewolf on my pc and its very similar
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.
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
If you’re a really “mainstream” user not really caring about privacy and such use Floorp or Zen.
If you’re caring about privacy at least a bit and want to get a pleasing experience, use Waterfox.
If you’re a bit more serious about privacy use Librewolf (mainly for privacy itself) or Mullgad Browser (for anonymity and fingerprinting). (These browsers are totally usable if you care about privacy and can be 100% used as daily drivers)
Lastly, you shouldn’t use Tor Browser in replacement of the traditional Firefox as it’s firstly meant to use it with the Tor network and to only browse some sites that are not tracking every move. (The same goes a bit with Mullvad (excepting the fact that Mullvad is not meant to browser the Tor network), it’s an anonymity browser in the sense that you shouldn’t use it to connect to the GAFAM fucking services that will suck 100% your datas, in this case of high privacy without really needing pure anti-fingerprinting and anonymity you should use Librewolf)
That’s it hope you will succeed in your journey! :)
Last advice : You can also harden the default Firefox with some user.js (like the arkenfox or betterfox one) but as today it’s really no more useful in my opinion as forks are doing the same things without the configuration hassle of setting up your new browser. Have a nice day
