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Thoughts on Firefox forks? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml to c/technology@lemmygrad.ml

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Yesterday I accidentally wiped my Firefox profile. Upon creating a new one I was hit with the realisation of just how many shit defaults Firefox has. This made me consider using a fork which un-enshittifies Firefox.

There is only one that I know of, LibreWolf. Thankfully it seems actively maintained. So on Windows I have started using that for now. On Linux I still use Firefox because the enlightened repository maintainers don't allow any Firefox/Chromium forks and I don't wanna use Flatpak or pacakge it myself.

Are there any other forks worth considering?

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[–] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

LibreWolf is good, just enable privacy.resistFingerprinting.letterboxing in about:config (they have binary repositories for Debian and some derivatives). There's also Arkenfox if you just want reasonable settings in Firefox

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I saw arkenfox a while back but I found the instructions confusing (there is no one line install command in the readm).

[–] rainn@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can just move the user.js in your firefox profile, and read the wiki for tweaks

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Thanks