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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A reminder that there are many firefox forks that exist if base firefox is adding unwanted things or you might have different wants, but sites will still "see" firefox in terms of compatibility. I'm using Librewolf with some annoyances (it doesn't let things fingerprint to the point that it can't even get your current time), but overall I like it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

According to the Librewolf documentation, fingerprinting can be turned off, but they recommend adding the Canvas Blocker extension in its place. That is my current setup, as I didn't like that websites in Librewolf couldn't get the correct time and time zone for me.

Here's the direct quote from the Librewolf documentation:

If you don't like the downsides of RFP, or you are not concerned about fingerprinting, you can disable RFP in the LibreWolf settings, or in your overrides. In that case consider using an extension like CanvasBlocker to retain at least a minimum amount of fingerprinting protection.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Why AI, no one wants AI...

Source for the no one wanting AI is me... I do not want AI

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

At the very least I don't feel like I need more out of Firefox than it has today. If it all goes to shit, then a free Firefox Ala chromium would do fine.

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

Focusing on the core business (the browser) and dropping products (that are already done better by others) seems like a very good idea. I have seen zero people on Mastodon on a mozilla.social account and I've never seen their VPN appear in a list of top/recommended VPNs. I just want a world class browser that pounds the competition and regains browser market share. If Firefox dies, we are f'kd.

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

So... Who's the board of mozilla hiring the ceo, again? How did this board come to be?

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

Not sure what to think about this.

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

Sings “it’s the end of Mozilla as we know it”.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Jamie Zawinski would probably be laughing very hard at this statement

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Comparing brave and base Firefox is unfair IMO. Brave is security hardened out of the box, where as Firefox is a general purpose browser and has telemetry in the form of crash reports and the like (which can be turned off). It can be hardend well through arkenfox, or using a fork like Librewolf. Comparing Firefox and chrome is better imho.

Firefox has many built-in anti fingerprinting flags (such as letterboxing, RFP, font limiting, and many more} which when combined with ublock origin are unbeatable. A baked-in content blocker like that of braves loses because it isn't extensible. This website compares on only default settings which aren't representative of the extent each browser can be taken but useful nonetheless: https://privacytests.org/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The website you mentioned is created by Brave Developers

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

A baked-in content blocker like that of braves loses because it isn’t extensible.

In what way? I use(d) Firefox since the very first Firebird days, and Netscape Navigator before it, and I'm practically married to uBO (don't tell my wife!). That said, Brave's 'shields' blocker is just skinned uBO with some tweaks. It can add custom cosmetic filtering rules, additional adblock format filter lists, disable or enable JS (globally or per-site) and has built in fingerprint resistance. Aside from the differing UI, I genuinely can't think of anything overtly missing as such.

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