By Joe Brockmeier
March 4, 2025

Mozilla's actions have been rubbing many Firefox fans the wrong way as of late, and inspiring them to look for alternatives. There are many choices for users who are looking for a browser that isn't part of the Chrome monoculture but is full-featured and suitable for day-to-day use. For those who are willing to stay in the Firefox "family" there are a number of good options that have taken vastly different approaches. This includes GNU IceCat, Floorp, LibreWolf, and Zen.

If you're interested, you should read the whole article, but below are the summaries of the four tested browsers.

IceCat is probably a good choice for folks who are more concerned with the free software ethos and privacy than with functionality.

Overall, Floorp is an interesting project with some nice enhancements to the Firefox UI. However, the development roadmap seems a bit more haphazard than I would like—switching back and forth between Firefox rapid release and ESRs, for example. That may not dissuade other folks, though.

For the most part, users would be hard-pressed to spot many differences between LibreWolf and Firefox at first (or second) glance, so a screen shot of LibreWolf seemed a bit unnecessary. That approach is likely to appeal to many users who are uneasy with things like telemetry and Pocket, but don't want an entirely new browsing experience.

Currently, Zen isn't fully baked enough for me to consider switching to it. Others may be more adventurous in their browsing habits than I am, though. I can say that it has stabilized significantly since I first tried it shortly after its first public release. The project does bear keeping an eye on, and the Mozilla folks could do worse than to copy some of the ideas (and code) that the project is experimenting with.

How the great have fallen.

Source: https://lemmy.world/post/26696617

#firefox #privacy #enshittification

Having switched to Zen Browser, something I miss with Firefox was its stability. I find myself looking up Zen browser bugs and workarounds too much. This is the 2nd or 3rd time I'm downgrading Zen versions due to a bug in the stable version, I never had to do so during my years on Firefox. Devs on Github making an app on their free time have can't spend as long on QA as a multi-mullion dollar organization.

#Linux Weekly Roundup for March 9th, 2025: #GNOME 48 Release Candidate, #PipeWire 1.4, #Ubuntu Touch OTA-8, #Firefox and #Thunderbird 136, #KDE Gear 24.12.3, #Clonezilla Live 3.2.1, #KeePassXC 2.7.10, #GarudaLinux “Broadwing”, and more https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-march-9th-2025

#OpenSource #FOSS

ℹ️ Info

now published!

If you want, vote for my proposal to allow 2 sidebars in Firefox!

Firefox gets vertical tabs and a sidebar, cool huh? And you can open pages as sidebar popups, for example a small dictionary page, or a notepad or whatever else!

But when using vertical tabs and these site popups, it looks pretty ugly and pushes the main site to the edge.

Having a sidebar and a vertical tab bar would fix this.

Current state and mockup as images attached.

This is how it currently is: the sidebar and the vertical tab bar are the same. Placed extensions are unintuitive and popup windows (like Mozillas SideView or dedicated extensions) are next to the tabs, pushing the main website even further to the side

This is how I would like it to be. A sidebar and a tab bar. Extensions go on the sidebar and the tab bar is just for tabs. The browser view is centered and clean.

(Tbh I would like tabs on the left but I am too lazy to edit the mockup)

Mozilla hat die FAQs von Firefox geändert: Statt „Daten werden nicht an Werbetreibende verkauft“ steht nun, dass persönliche Daten geschützt sind. Auch der Hinweis auf „kostenlos“ wurde geändert. Mozilla betont, keine Daten zu verkaufen, die Änderungen seien rechtlich nötig. Die Praxis bleibt jedoch gleich – persönlich halte ich die Aufregung für übertrieben. Als Alternative zu Firefox sei LibreWolf erwähnt. 👇

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/librewolf-und-tor-browser-sichere-und-datenschutzfreundliche-browser-teil-3/

#mozilla #firefox #librewolf #browser

So, we're not leaving Firefox after all?

(re, an earlier post, I guess I can replace Chrome with Vivaldi and keep on using Firefox, then)

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/03/mozilla-rewrites-firefoxs-terms-of-use-after-user-backlash/

#Firefox #Mozilla #browsers

Alright, trying to leave both Chrome and Firefox at the same time is difficult, especially because I always use multiple browsers at the same time (to separate accounts for this or that without having to switch accounts constantly). My current browser number three is Opera and so far, I'm not touching it (we'll see in the future).

My questions are basically: are LibreWolf and Vivaldi viable replacements as main browsers?

My main concerns are whether LibreWolf is mature enough and if both allow syncing between different devices (as I regularly use three computers).

Any constructive feedback is welcome.

(suggesting me to use that another browser I haven't mentioning without explaining why in detail is not constructive feedback, thank you)

#internet #browsers #webbrowser #Chrome #Firefox #LibreWolf #Vivaldi

Last week, Mozilla introduced legal updates to users of Firefox, and things did not go well.

Moving from Firefox to Vivaldi? It’s easier than ever. Import your browser data with just one click. 🌟

#Vivaldi #VivaldiBrowser #Firefox #Browser

Pues ya están aquí las pestañas verticales de @[email protected] :aplauso: :cooldoge:

#firefox

#Firefox 137 Enters Public Beta Testing with HEVC Playback Support on #Linux and Other Changes https://9to5linux.com/firefox-137-enters-public-beta-testing-with-hevc-playback-support-on-linux

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware

If you don't like Firefox or Mozilla, stop using it. If you feel that strongly about it, create a Fuck Mozilla community and post there to your heart's content. You're doing nothing in this community with your incessant posting about how Firefox and Mozilla are bad except making yourself feel good and destroying people's curated subscription feeds.

So, I'm staying with #Firefox, even though their CEO is tone-deaf and clumsy and destroying #Mozilla's reputation because today I had to remove 6 extensions in #Vivaldi (my sometimes alternate browser), several of which were security-related, because of Google's changes. I miss them. I want them back.

Bottom line. I definitely feel more secure using Firefox than a Chrome-based browser, and I won't let my disappointment with Mozilla kill off the only alternative to Google. I will continue using Firefox.

As far as using a fork of Firefox, if Firefox doesn't live on, neither will these forks.

Critics said the new terms implied Mozilla was asking users for the rights to whatever data they input or upload through Firefox.

#Mozilla #Firefox 136 Is Now Available for Download with Vertical Tabs, Official ARM64 #Linux Binaries, and Much More https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-firefox-136-is-out-with-vertical-tabs-and-official-arm64-linux-binaries

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware

Yubikeys don't work out of the box for the LibreWolf Flatpak because they sandboxed it so hard.

No big deal. Just had to go into the KDE Plasma Flatpak permission settings and let it have access to all the systems. Which is what Firefox was allowed anyway with a system install.

See why I am divorcing you Firefox? #Firefox #LibreWolf #Privacy #Security

LibreWolf is my main now.
Firefox, I hope you recover from "paying CEO millions". It sounds like a fatal condition. #WebBrowsers #Firefox #LibreWolf

Mozilla’s legal updates from last week are the gift that keep on giving. Take a look at the table below (extracted from the Firefox Privacy Notice):

Mozilla seemingly changes Firefox Terms of Use in order to get rid of wordings such as "we don't sell your data".

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e

#Mozilla #Firefox #Privacy #Data #GDPR #Surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism

Without disabling fingerprinting, zoom options aren't saved, dark mode doesn't really work and Netflix is blocked. But is it even worth running Librewolf if you enable fingerprinting? Isn't that one of the main reasons why one runs Librewolf?

Reckon after the last couple of years of shenanigans, the ToU update for #Mozilla's #Firefox will be the last nail in their coffin.

RIP Mozilla.

Another day, another @[email protected] video about Mozilla's terms of use update.

https://youtu.be/xn4mbx8hdlE

To me, this doesn’t feel like a "crisis averted" or "business as usual" situation, but at least Mozilla is addressing it.

I'm very happy with Zen Browser, and I'm considering switching to IronFox on Android. Folks smarter than me say Firefox’s MPL license makes it pretty safe for forks to remove any data-harvesting code if it comes to that.

#Firefox #Privacy #OpenSource #FOSS #TechNews

How my Firefox became a LibreWolf

New blog-post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1065/how-my-firefox-became-a-librewolf

#firefox #librewolf #tos #webcomic