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isosphere@beehaw.org 3 days agoI’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.
termus@beehaw.org 3 days ago
isosphere@beehaw.org 3 days ago
It’s still Firefox, so it’s the same. I installed uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, no different there.
termus@beehaw.org 3 days ago
Awesome, appreciate the information!
isosphere@beehaw.org 3 days ago
Same, workspaces are great!
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 3 days ago
…which is Gecko, which is Mozilla.
rfr_Foglia@feddit.it 3 days 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 3 days 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 Forking the engine is basically doomed to failure because you won’t be able to keep up, you’ll be out of date in a month and drastically insecure in a year.
This is basically all there is.
rfr_Foglia@feddit.it 3 days ago
Very good point, hold they won’t implement this telemetry deep in the engine.