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I've been using Firefox for more than 20 years since the Phoenix days, even when it was cleary slower than Chrome (it still is but the diferences are minimal )

I'm not acting surprised, but I think it's more than time to start looking into a viable alternative.

It's "Chromium" (?) still a thing? Do you guys know if there is a browser based on Firefox that doesn't have any of the BS Mozilla is putting into their browser?

I'm really praying for Ladybird but of course it's still not ready for prime time.

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I use Librefox [1] on desktop and Mull [2] on Android. They're both basically patch sets applied to Firefox that remove tracking, proprietary blobs, and come with better defaults for privacy.

[1] https://github.com/intika/Librefox

[2] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/us.spotco.fennec_dos/

Librefox was last updated 5 years ago!?!?! You probably don't want to use that. Try https://librewolf.net/

Oops thanks for pointing that out. I am indeed using librewolf.

Chromium is still a thing, I use it at work, considering all the corporate-ware that gets installed into Chrome by default now.

Waterfox and Librewolf seem to exist, and I imagine there's more Firefox forks out there. No idea on the state of things though

doesn't chromium still phone home to google though? Don't you have to use something like brave or ungoogled chromium to stop that from happening?

Hmm, I'm not sure in what capacity Chromium phones home.

I definitely have no ability to setup Google account sync nor did it play nicely out of the box with the Chrome web store, so I assumed not? But I haven't done my own tests

One Firefox based alternative

https://floorp.app/en

what does floorp bring to the table other than a more configurable UI, split tabs, etc. Does it have privacy enhancements over regular firefox like librewolf, et.al. ?

I use Brave on all platforms (fedora, osx, android). It's essentially chromium + built in ublock style blocking, with privacy defaults turned on throughout.

Orion, if you're on Mac: https://kagi.com/orion/

That's webkit

Sure, but with all the privacy invasion stuff ripped out. It's actively developed and maintained, and lets you install firefox and chrome extensions. It's a great browser and I use it every day.

I like it, too, and I absolutely love kagi. Just clarifying because the original question asked for browsers based on firefox.

Have you considered Brave? It's fresh and a litte different in varous ways.

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