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I need extensions way too much to use something built from scratch, so as Firefox joins the enshittification bandwagon, what's the best Firefox-based browser I should check out?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 23 hours ago

Librewolf is a pretty easy choice.

[โ€“] Jeef 4 points 17 hours ago

Currently use Librewolf. Have tried Floorp, waterfox, zen and some others but always come back to Librewolf

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 21 hours ago

Librewolf for desktop, fennec for mobile

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

I like the look of this, have you used it much? I've been using a mixture of Fennec on mobile and Librewolf/Waterfox on desktop for a bit now, but some of Zen's features look pretty useful.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Definitely recommend replacing Fennec with IronFox on mobile, it's a fork of Mull, so it'll be a solid privacy upgrade!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

I've been using it for quite a while and it has almost eliminated my needs for another browser. It's pretty good

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

It's my main browser for a while now and I really like the vertical tabs and tab unloading which saves a lot of ram compared to regular firefox. Otherwise I think the split modes and the peeking feature are nice but I don't use them that much.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Can't wait to try out once have pc again

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago

Floorp is what I use and it is pretty decent.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

i'm sad to see that no one has mentioned iceweasal/icecat. lol

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

What makes them (it?) good?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago

i'm only half joking and half raising awareness of this project since it too is a firefox based browser.

the thing i liked about iceweasel (before it became icecat) were the nightly builds; but i switched back to firefox once they started doing that too and i don't know if icecat is still doing this.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

Tor for privacy