I’m aware that it used to be owned by an ad company System1. But I found this post by the founder where he said that it’s now an independent project.
I’m aware that it used to be owned by an ad company System1. But I found this post by the founder where he said that it’s now an independent project.
I am curious why Librewolf isn’t for you?
Overall I’ve had no issue with librewolf. It’s runs just like Firefox without some of the bloat. The very few sites I’ve found don’t work, don’t work on FF either (usually payment/online stores with popups and shit). Download whatever extension, change the settings and even sign into Firefox cloud. Yes, you’ll make your “fingerprint” more unique but, the other security improvemts/defaults make it a worthy trade off.
Biggest annoyance is by default cookies/logged in sites are wiped on close. That can easily be changed globally, or white list what you want to save site settings for. Signing out of websites is a good habit anyway, especially ones with payment attached.
The neat part is there’s a lot options to pick from, some of them are doing cool things like the one outta Japan Floorp looks interesting.
I want to keep cookies to log in easily or to keep some preferences in specific websites
I want to keep the history for autofill urls and stuff
I don’t want to keep light theme by default, as well as fixed browser size, and I have to entirely remove fingerprinting protection for that
At this point I’m just using LibreWolf with settings a lot of people don’t use. Might as well use Firefox with custom about:config entries…
Its default settings are not good for everyday people, and even for privacy enthusiasts. They’re for paranoid people, at the cost of making the browser much less enjoyable
I’ve heard good things about Zen Browser if you want to give that a try.
I’m still a bit scared of it being in beta. Security issues are the kind of things you really don’t want in a browser
Can’t answer for them but for me, sites would break, the cookie management was a pain in the backside, and I hated having it start in windowed literally every time I’d start the browser. It also doesn’t handle containers as well as the original FF addon did.
Forgot about the window size thing, I looked up the setting to make it open normally.
I know I’m defeating the purpose by undoing someone the settings, but I’d rather the defaults be set for privacy and I disable the few that are overbearing/hindering my use. Never did use containers, so I didn’t know it was bad.