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What's wrong with firefox?
I used Opera because you could place tabs at the bottom of the window. When Opera became just a Chrome skin, I switched to Firefox because through the Tab Mix Plus extension I could place the tabs to the bottom. When Firefox killed the extension (and many more), I switched to Vivaldi (made by the former Opera team) because it offered tabs on the bottom. Very recently I switched to Waterfox, because @jh34@lemmy.world told me the browser also allows for tabs to be placed at the bottom. What can I say... I'm a bottom kind of guy...
Any particular reason you want your tabs at the bottom of the window? Aesthetics, work flow, grouping?
Just something I'm used to. I have windows tabs on the bottom, so I'd like to have everything in the same place, rather than move the cursor all over the screen. I guess it's a holdover back from Netscape days when I had several separate windows open, and they all had their own tab on the Windows task bar.
I like bottoms tbh. 😏 I am using iceraven myself for a year pretty good.
Floorp also has that feature, and Vivaldi's split tabs
Nothing. Ideally you'll take a privacy hardened fork though, like Fennec or LibreWolf.
Can you elaborate? I looked at the page for LibreWolf and as best as I can tell they just change some default settings and add Ublock as a pre installed extension.
Yes, LibreWolf is basically just Firefox with tweaked default settings.
I tried using hardened Firefox before moving on to use LibreWolf. Manually hardening Firefox is arguably more powerful than what you'd have with LibreWolf out of the box, but the effort involved in making those changes in the settings and remembering what they are (what they were by default, and what they were changed to) makes it hard to maintain.
Do you mean across devices? I don't think it changes the settings when it updates but i could be wrong.
Back when I tried it, I only had it in one device--which is great, since I dunno if I can do it on more than one device, let alone worry how a hardened Firefox mobile would even look like.
I actually don't remember if the settings change with updates. But I suppose they don't (as they don't either with Librewolf). What I meant with "hard to maintain" is basically keeping note that the hardened Firefox config doesn't behave like vanilla Firefox (and isn't expected to). Making some temporary changes to accommodate a "necessary evil" website, you'd have to make note what setting you "temporarily" have to change it to, what the hardened config should be for that setting, and most importantly: remembering to change it back to the hardened config.
So, I guess it's not really a matter of maintaining the config than being aware of all those config changes (from default). With LibreWolf, I'm just brushing it off as "yeah, that's how LibreWolf works."
waterfox is great too
For android there's iceraven and mull.
Isn't fennec on android?
Yes.
I never used fennec.
Floorp is also great