• Libra00
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        17 days ago

        I didn’t realize there were firefox forks, are any of them significantly better than firefox?

        • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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          17 days ago

          waterfox, zen, "librewolf is just a rehashed version firefox, if you are looking for android version. you can look at ironfox for mobile.

        • katy ✨
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          7 days ago

          librefoxlibrewolf is very good; it comes with ublock and various other privacy features pre-installed, i’ve been leaning toward them more just because they embraced mastodon more. mullvad also has one.

          i typically go between firefox nightly and librefoxlibrewolf.

          edit: oops mistyped the name, thanks @KumaSudosa@feddit.dk

        • @megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          7 days ago

          I use librewolf just because it’s privacy focused.

          But, there is also waterfox, floorp, and mercury, just off the top of my head.

        • @zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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          17 days ago

          Zen is worth checking out. It isn’t my favorite, but it’s trying to do some cool stuff. It might eventually become my favorite once it becomes more stable.

          Right now, I’m digging FireDragon. It has two sidebars: one vertical tab bar and one for gadgets. And the vertical tab bar collapses to icons when you aren’t hovering over it.

    • a baby duck
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      37 days ago

      Does Vivaldi not just use the Chrome store for extensions? Also, aren’t they losing manifest V2 as soon as it’s dropped from Chromium in a few more months?

      • @bokherif@lemmy.world
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        17 days ago

        Not sure how Vivaldi uses extensions since you cannot add new ones from the chrome store, but if that happens we’re gonna need to go to Firefox eventually. I currently love Vivaldi due to simplicity and the swipe up to open tabs page. Wish more browsers integrated that or just better & fluid animations

        • @whats_all_this_then@programming.dev
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          27 days ago

          Not sure how Vivaldi uses extensions since you cannot add new ones from the chrome store…

          Extensions in Vivaldi come from the Chrome Web Store, not sure what you mean by this

          • @bokherif@lemmy.world
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            17 days ago

            I’m using the mobile app which doesn’t let you use extensions from the chrome store, if you guys are talking desktop, I might be wrong.

    • @ripcord@lemmy.world
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      Any Chromium-based browser will be in the same boat sooner or later. None of them have the resources to continue to support v2 long-term, or to support their own extension stores.

      At this point the only viable alternative is Firefox and its dirivatives.

    • @whats_all_this_then@programming.dev
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      7 days ago

      I’m trying. I’m trying so hard. But it keeps pissing me off because I have to dig through settings to undo changes they made to browser features that are standard across both Firefox and Chrome. It’s free and I’m not tryig to sound entitled but almost every single change they made to Chromium aside from the privacy stuff has me going WHYYYYYY?

      The way they handle open in new tab, tlds like.internal, and ctrl+click to complete urls were the worst offenders off the top of my head.

      Plus their ad blocker doesn’t even come close to uBlock Lite.

      I just want v8 in a hardened vanilla Firefox wrapper that doesn’t go to the extremes that LibreWolf goes) :(

    • mechoman444
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      17 days ago

      Also highly recommend waterfox if you still want the chrome aesthetic.