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I was looking for a non-chromium alternative browser to Firefox and found mercury. According to this site it is one of the fastest Firefox forks and also has optimizations from other well known forks like librewolf.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The developer included furry porn art as part of the code base of his other browser project, Thorium. He removed it after it was discovered.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Furries hold up the entire IT field though

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Do I really want to know what furry porn is?🤨

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Its an art form depicting humanoid animals engaging in sexual activities

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh well - why should one integrate this in a browser lol? Jesus sometimes I regret sharing something I think is good at first glance - but well I think I will then go back to librewolf

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Mercury is ESR and not privacy focused. The dev found nice build flags though. Using Librewolf for privacy is always advised, if you dont compile FF yourself and use it with arkenfox and policies

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Don't ever go to 4chan. Ever. You will lose your innocence.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Thanks for pointing it out 😂