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I was thinking of switching to one of the Firefox forks but have only tried Waterfox so far and not super impressed. I guess Firefox is the best out of the bad bunch until I find an alternative I like.
Librewolf looks exactly the same to me
Librewolf is pretty much standard hardened Firefox. So you should feel right at home with that one
Thanks I'll give it a go
Interesting. What did you dislike about waterfox?
The UI and dialogue boxes look a bit dated, not sure why
Ah fair enough, can't argue with personal preference.
You sure you weren't using waterfox classic though? That has a more dated UI than the current version.
I personally use librewolf anyway, but waterfox is still a pretty decent step up from Firefox, privacy-wise.