So... for the most practical question:
Anyone have a favourite Firefox fork that removes this and doesn't add other spyware or reinvent the UI too much?
Anyone have a favourite Firefox fork that removes this and doesn't add other spyware or reinvent the UI too much?
I personally use Librewolf with the Lepton (Photon style) UI[0], which replicates the previous UI style Firefox used a couple years ago, with small square tabs and condensed menus, before the current pseudo-tabletified abomination.
Of course, if you like the current UI—you'd literally be the first person I've met to like it—you can just use librewolf stock and it doesn't apply any changes to the standard Firefix UI.