I prefer Librewolf as it is easier and simpler to use

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Every fork creates fragmentation. Then you get forks of forks. Then you get forks of forks of forks. Eventually, you get a knife, and a spoon, and a spork, maybe even a fpoon. And every fork splits your developer pool in half! And once you’re down to one developer each, the developer splits in half! And then you have no project.

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And that’s why we should use Chrome?

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No, but cargo-culting Mozilla isn’t ideal.

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that’s not how things work. open source projects don’t start with a set amount of developers and start splitting. even if they do, they don’t split in equal parts. if you have 500 developers working on a project, and 10 of them create 8 different forks, that doesn’t really change much.

some developers may move around, and more developers can join the pool all the time, on any fork. i don’t understand how any of this is a problem.

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Nice FUD.

By your own logic, Chrome should have fewer developers than Konqueror, since its engine is essentially a fork of a fork of a fork.

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Not entirely

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Arkenfox is not a fork FYI

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How is it not a fork?

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It’s a template to help set all the security and privacy hardening features that Firefox already ships with but are disabled by default.

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Arkenfox is simply a set of configuration you can (and should) apply yourself onto a clean Firefox installation.

A fork means taking the source code and modifying it directly, not providing an alternative configuration file.

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It is a script that automatically changes the internal flags of Firefox (accessed manually through “about:config”) but isn’t a recompile. A fork that uses most of the Arkenfox config is Librewolf.

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Can’t recommend this. It broke couple sites that I frequently use when I tried it some time ago

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Broken sites are a small price to pay for privacy

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Contact the site owner and let them know. Tell them to test in Tor Browser too

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I really doubt they would care about something like this. Even getting them to support firefox was an annoying process. I emailed them every month for six months until they added firefox support

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That’s some mad dedication

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This is expected if you keep the default settings. You shouldn’t use it as it is but read the wiki and configure it to find the balance you want between privacy and usablity.

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Librewolf my beloved. Unfortunately not on mobile iirc

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Use Mull

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What about iOS ?

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Safari is your only option as all iOS browsers are Safari. Also there are not as many apps as Apples ecosystem is locked and requires a lot of money to develop for. Add that to the fact that it is closed source and you have a anti freedom device. Apple also is bad about data collection despite there claims.

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no great options but Orion by kagi is much better than base safari since you can at least get extensions like ublock

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That’s what I do. LibreWolf on desktop and Mull on Android, with FF Sync enabled between them. Works like a charm!

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If you are willing to compromise I would recommend Betterfox as it breaks far fewer sites while still being better than the default Firefox profile.

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I know this is somewhat defeating of the privacy purpose but I use FF because of sync- is there an alternative that can use something like webdav to sync my bookmarks/history/etc between instances? e; i know floccus is around for bookmarks but i find history useful too

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Librewolf supports Mozilla sync

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:O

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