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Found some Firefox forks but can't decide which one to use (szmer.info)

submitted 2 days ago by Igilq@szmer.info to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Anyone know of a desktop equivalent to IronFox?

[–] DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

prob librewolf i use ironfox on mobile and librewolf on my pc and its very similar

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I meant more on the security front than UI, but Librewolf does mention "security" 5 times on their page so I guess they are probably more secure than base FireFox.

[–] DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it is has a lot more setrings to

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 hours ago

I can't believe Javascript on PDF's is enabled on default on Firefox. NOBODY wants that.