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…

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    24 days 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.

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      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

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    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.

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        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.

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    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

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      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.

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    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.

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    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?

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      I think Zen browser is de Vivaldi of Firefox forks. Looks pretty clean too.

      Floorp also looks promising. I’ll have to try both

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    I use libre wolf . It’s just perfect point to not be a border . For people complaining about it breaking stuff or saying is just a user.js , read the documentation

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    Try using Chameleon extension to spoof the headers to look like vanilla FF on Windows.