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Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Addons and avoid the Bloat) (infosec.pub)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by ekZepp@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Just pick one - All the Fox functionality without bloatware

Librewolf - https://librewolf.net/

Waterfox - https://www.waterfox.com/

Zen Browser - https://zen-browser.app/

More browsers here - https://alternativeto.net/category/browsers/firefox-based/

You can also use this add to disable the ~~shitload~~ ai function in many search engines in one go

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-ai/

GitHub page - https://github.com/jruns/disable-ai

You can find all the links on Mastodon<

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[–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I was ignoring everything Waterfox back when I realize they were bought by an advertising company, System1, which also owns StartPage.

BUT, I recently read from Wikipedia that Waterfox has gone independent again since 2023.

[–] rustyricotta@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 6 days ago (1 children)

As someone who uses waterfox but hadn't heard any of this news, that was a rollercoaster. But consider me relieved.

[–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 6 days ago

I also just installed Waterfox for the first time after reading the Wikipedia page. I use it to replace Firefox to be used when I need webgl or webrtc/voice call. my main browser is still Librewolf

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

[–] hummingbird@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

Impressive how management can blindly ignore their own core pricipals.

[–] LettyWhiterock@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago (3 children)

As a heads up, Librewolf last I checked had issues with media involving DRM. Ergo, streaming services will throw a fit if you try using them on it. Not an issue if you don't use any of course, and there may be ways around it, but worth knowing that it doesn't work out of the box at least.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

it's in settings > general

"screenshot of librewolf's play drm-controlled content setting"

[–] LettyWhiterock@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Easier of a solution than I had found when I tried... I remember looking it up basically being told it wasn't possible without a lot of fiddling. Strange. Good to know it's actually simple!

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago

Actually it should be even simpler because if it's disabled and the site attempts to use it, you'll see a prompt under the toolbar that says you may want to enable it.

what you said might be about watching streaming sites on linux in general. some of them only give you inferior quality streams, some of them outright refuse to cooperate.

[–] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, you have to enable a setting. I think it links you to it when you run into it. Much more of a turn off to me is not being able to use my camera in it, so I have to use a different browser for video calls.

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[–] lena@gregtech.eu 4 points 6 days ago

I refuse to use any services that make use of DRM on principle. They're defective by design.

[–] parzival@lemmy.org 2 points 4 days ago

I'm hopeful that firefox will get better, but I will switch to librewolf if it doesn't https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rkrikorian_youre-not-an-owner-youre-a-renter-thats-activity-7407449623365160960-eBba?rcm=ACoAAAEaOGUBcuQnpyDgX8X3tv2kNPamUFP1d5k

[–] BonkTheAnnoyed@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Right now the hold up for me is session sharing and password syncing between mobile and Linux.

Passwords I have a clear path forward, with either offline mgr + manual sync, or self-hosted online. But I it's weirdly hard to walk away from session sharing.

Edit oh nice, waterfox does all this.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 9 points 6 days ago

Hell yeah shoutout to alternativeto.net! Fucking great site.

[–] Solenopsis@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Are there any plans to make a mobile browser?

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Waterfox is available for Android.

[–] mmmac@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 days ago

Last I used librewolf/waterfox they lagged behind a few days on security updates, so I switched to regular Firefox with arkenfox user.js

[–] abfm90@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I use Fennec in Android and Librewolf in Linux.

Libre wolf needs a bit of tweaking at the begining but then works like charm.

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Tweaking in what sense? Like just default search engines and such, or is it about:config settings?

I'm just curious.

[–] abfm90@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

I had a thing that deleted everything every time I closed the browser... Like it reset i. I activated history and a few other normal stuff... Nothing in about:config.

Also, in Gnome, I had to activate a permission to access user files in flatseal to work with gnome extensions

Nothing special.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

I am not them but I always reenable history keeping and turn on a few more ublock lists that are already there disabled

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