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I prefer Librewolf as it is easier and simpler to use

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 months ago (12 children)

Remember, all these forks are possible because Firefox is open source

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Arkenfox is not a fork FYI

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

TIL.

Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (9 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

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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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Librewolf my beloved. Unfortunately not on mobile iirc

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (6 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Its better to just go through the settings yourself then rely on arkenfox. This just adds a middleman into the process of keeping your settings updated.

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

Have you seen the user.js, you have to change a lot of settings and you cannot keep up to date with them, secondly Arkenfox prefers you to go over their user.js by your self and their updater script has the -c flag to show you the difference between current user.js and new user.js

Overall it would be very difficult to manage something like this on our own as most things are not visible on the settings page of Firefox

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (6 children)

In addition, if you use user.js then you essentially cannot change those settings at runtime (via about:config or otherwise), because your user.js will override the settings on next startup. Maybe that's desired for some, but good to keep in mind nonetheless.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (7 children)

There's the provided user-overrides.js that's meant to do this

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I unironically run everything in VMs

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Librewolf supports Mozilla sync

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Broken sites are a small price to pay for privacy

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It has proprietary blobs and telemetry

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Proprietary boobs are my favourite

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

I read between the limes on this one

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