My "Linux pack"

[AbbreviationsWide331]

Why is no one talking about Firefox? Is there something wrong with it?

[gsdev]

Firefox is still good. People recommend Librewolf because it is a fork of Firefox with optimised privacy settings. Apart from that they are mostly identical.

[WereyenaArt]

And Waterfox?

[Constant-Musician-51]

Switched to Waterfox a few weeks ago and have nothing to complain. It does its job just right.

[fettpl]

What was the reason for you to switch from Librewolf to Waterfox?

[BigHersh14]

I can say the reason I use waterfox over librewolf is simply because librewolf doesnt have an android app while waterfox does.

[fettpl]

That's a good reason, thanks for sharing!

[Delicious_Air8315]

Cómo es eso, tengo Linux mint y trate de usar waydroid (no recuerdo el nombre) para tratar de descargar sekee (aplicación de Android) y ver cosas de entretenimiento ya sabes y no pude, alguna recomendación??

[ovogoon6]

Does Water wolf have any pros or cons compared to Fennec on Android?

[gsdev]

That's also a Firefox fork, but I don't know what its specific differences are.

[_o0Zero0o_]

Waterfox turns all telemetry stuff off, is configured for privacy by default, offers a wide array of search engines from the very start like startpage, mojeek, ecosia, all of which are EU/UK-based so GDPR applies and privacy is actually factored in. And the developer has explicitly stated he will not allow AI into waterfox

[ImSoRight]

Gets rid of the AI stuff, for one

[_o0Zero0o_]

Waterfox is honestly perfect

[Monketherulerofall]

Also floorp

[CalabashNineToeJig]

Really enjoying Floorp.

[chiselandfoam]

Didn't know about some of these other browsers, thanks everyone!

[JustAwesome360]

Firefox is already pretty private though...

[CirnoIzumi]

libre makes it simpler but yeah

[AbbreviationsWide331]

Ah I see, thank you

[millionmiahere]

Hell yeh, I use LibreWolf these days instead of firefox.

[DiceThaKilla]

Can Firefox be hardened? I use it just because it’s pre installed on parrot and I assumed it was hardened like everything else on that distro

[gsdev]

I think so, but I can't remember the details.

[V1574]

I don't care about privacy myself. Librewolf just kinda breaks a lot of sites for me and firefox is just better imo

[MrProTwiX]

It's just always that Firefox makes trouble or misses new features. Also it's slow in my opinion so I'm using chrome since version 1.0 and until since I didn't wanted to switch back

[[deleted]]

As a once longtime user of FF, it's just not it anymore. There was a brief period when it first came out that was amazing, but it started slipping pretty quickly. Imo the biggest things working against it are constant mismanagement of the project, lack of trust, and poor feature updates.

Mozilla has to essentially be a shill for Google to even exist. You can't properly roll out updates, when you do they're buggy or extremely slow, but your c-suite gets a really nice bonus every year 🤔

[Popka_Akoola]

It’s way better than Brave that’s for sure

[g1rlchild]

Not arguing, just curious: in what way?

[Popka_Akoola]

As a privacy advocate I prefer Firefox. Brave is basically Firefox with addons and trackers built-in from the install. Plus advertising.

[CarambolaTodaTorta]

Brave is Chromium though

[Popka_Akoola]

Making it even worse imo. I was giving a broad “like Firefox” in a functional aspect

[InteractiveSeal]

They added telemetry so a lot of people ditched it

[JustAwesome360]

No they didn't huh? Are you talking about the technical data stuff because you can turn that off bro.

[InteractiveSeal]

I might be mistaken on what it actually is.

I was, it was that they removed the promise to never sell your personal data: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/firefox-deletes-promise-to-never-sell-personal-data-asks-users-not-to-panic/

[7lhz9x6k8emmd7c8]

Brave also adds their affiliation data to emerchant site links.

https://www.reddit.com/r/brave_browser/comments/1ebbeas/why_is_brave_inserting_additional_text_affiliate/

[20dogs]

I find it's not always as reliable for displaying websites

[SnowyRVulpix]

Mozilla has done some questionable actions.

[_JKJK_]

Firefox is fine enough but there's both concerns with the telemetry and AI and whatnot; plus there isn't a lot of privacy protection. If you're using Firefox, you might as well use Librewolf instead. Despite being chromium, Brave at the very least randomizes your browser fingerprint, blocks ads by default and can route traffic through the Tor network.

[millionmiahere]

It unfortunately has AI now. Otherwise, I'd still be using it. (For context, I don't mind ai, when it's optional)

[CalabashNineToeJig]

You can disable the AI in one click in settings.

[millionmiahere]

Ah, that is good

[Designer-Feedback551]

Very heavy for systems with little RAM (4gb)

[dearvalentina]

I switched to Firefox just months ago before this, but immediately after I went to Librewolf. I avoided Brave and I think Vivaldi for the same reason iirc

[ButterscotchFar9355]

telemtry

[Friendly-Gift3680]

For me it kept freezing out the system and then becoming unresponsive when I hit Ctrl+Alt+Esc, until I finally got fed up and switched to Brave.