I’m trying zen-browser.app now. It’s also an open source fork of Firefox. The UI is much changed: vertical tabs and workspaces. It was a bit of a shock, but it’s growing on me.
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ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
So … what is the leading alternative browser then?
One of the reasons Firefox became so popular was that it was an alternative.
Now that they’re drifting towards something we don’t like … what is the new alternative?
isosphere@beehaw.org 2 months ago
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 months ago
…which is Gecko, which is Mozilla.
rfr_Foglia@feddit.it 2 months ago
Shouldn’t the Zen team be able to avoid sending data to Mozilla considering that FireFox is open-source and they can change the code?
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Really depends on where and how the data collection is integrated.
Browser forks mostly make changes to the application UI which wraps the engine, not to the engine itself. Browser engines are these fantastically complex things, extremely difficult to keep operational and secure, which is why there aren’t many of them and why they’re all developed by large organizations. Forking the engine is basically doomed to failure because you won’t be able to keep up, you’ll be out of date in a month and drastically insecure in a year.
termus@beehaw.org 2 months ago
How is it with blocking ads?
isosphere@beehaw.org 2 months ago
It’s still Firefox, so it’s the same. I installed uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, no different there.
remington@beehaw.org 2 months ago
librewolf.net
isosphere@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Librewolf has some trouble with some websites. For example, it won’t load one of my own that makes a GRPC request over TLS, stating that the certificate issuer is unknown despite it being the same certificate used on the accepted-as-secure page the request is made from.
I’m trying zen-browser.app now. It’s also an open source fork of Firefox. The UI is much changed: vertical tabs and workspaces. It was a bit of a shock, but it’s growing on me.
remington@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Hey! Thanks for the heads up. This looks good and I’m going to try it out.
ded@lemy.lol 2 months ago
Librewolf is mostly a autoconfig file for Firefox (which is a Firefox feature). codeberg.org/librewolf/settings/…/librewolf.cfg I doubt implementation of terms will be optional.
remington@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Thanks!
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 2 months ago
…which is Gecko, which is Mozilla.