Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Just stumbled upon this project, seems rather new as my DNS blocked its domain by default for being too new hehe.. Anyone had a chance to try it yet? Its got some hefty promises, like having equally strong privacy features as Librewolf. I'll be giving it ago at least, almost sounds a bit too good to be true...
I've been using it for about a week, both at work and at home, and I must say that it is great. It is nearly everything that I wanted from a browser. Especially since it is based on Firefox.
I've been so happy with it, that I even donated to the project.
Happy to hear!
I like it so far. The weakness seems to be the size of the dev team and if the project has a future. Hopefully they are planning accordingly.
I went through a handful of threads and it seems mostly positive so far. One choice I wasn't sure about was that they're considering having a built in adblocker (based on something that's not ublock origin). I would prefer if the browser just shipped with ublock origin instead.
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/browser-extensions/
As far as privacy focused browsers go, ~~Mull~~ Mullvad Browser seems to be the best still. I was exploring Zen for my day to day browser.
Appreciate the browser extensions link, thanks.
Arkenfox provides a more in-depth extensions-related info: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions
Mull
Mull is Android only: https://divestos.org/pages/our_apps#mull.
Thanks!
Mull is Android only
Oops, fixed the comment
nixpkgs has been working on adding it for a month now but it uses “surfer” for compilation. It’ll be interesting to see how they end up building it in the Nix style. Looks like it’ll have to involve pnpm.
nobody uses iceweasel? For those who don't know, it is the version of firefox cleaned up by non ‘libre’ code mainly from debian and then taken over by parabola linux. For me it is the best together with mullvad.
I was under the impression IceWeasel changed to IceCat.
And, honestly, from all I could remember, the default protections are so strong a good half of sites doesn't even work properly lol
Typical GNU maximalism.
(But yeah - it really blocks all the bad stuff and doesn't do anything you don't ask it to do, not even call for updates by default)
icecat is based on the LTS version, iceweasel the rolling-release. I have been using iceweasel for almost a year and all the sites I have used work
I see - thanks for clarification!
Got confused because beforehand there was GNU IceWeasel (now GNU IceCat), which is now separate from IceWeasel. Quite a shitshow.
Tried it a bit yesterday on Windows. Opened a Github link in it and Windows Defender killed the app saying it was a threat. Definitely a false positive but seemed odd to see the entire app just die instantly, lol.
Idk much about the privacy features, but I've been using it for the past day and it's way faster and better optimised then floorp.
This looks like it good be a great replacement for Floorp. Thanks for sharing!
How does this one compare to the current OGs like Mullvad Browser and Librewolf?
Until something comes out saying otherwise, Mullvad browser seems to be the best privacy wise.
I believe Zen is better than default Firefox out of the box, but you can get the same effect in regular Firefox by toggling some options.
I liked Zen for the UI changes. It's nice having the tabs on the side and a customizable sidebar
Mullvad browser seems to be the best privacy wise.
Only makes sense if you use their VPN. Otherwise, there's no real advantages over LibreWolf.
Ah good to know
I'll take anything to get off of Firefox. I'll give this browser a week long trial run.
You fanboys can go to hell. Defend this if you can: https://imgur.com/a/1Tr4ttb
can you spot any differences in your browser comparison?
I did but all you fucking morons are having your knee jerk reactions. It's what I expected from dumb fucking fanboys with no lives who swear their allegiance to Firefox. Fuck you. lol
A bit more politeness goes a very long way.
Try being more civil, this will earn you way more support, especially since you want to change people's minds.
Nope. There is no civility with fanboys.
@Frozyre Please, behave yourself. This unnecessary swearing is pointless.
Awfully rude just because you don't like something that you have full control of deciding to use or not.
Awfully rude to be this retarded.
@Frozyre please keep it a bit friendly. I understand you are mad, but there's no point in treating other people like this.
Tell the assholes to keep it friendly themselves. I'm talking the fanboys. They who can't handle differing opinions have no place in open discussion on any platform. Period.
You actually started calling them to go to hell.
Open discussions are of course fine, but your tone isn't. Since we aren't talking about handling different opinions now, you are just insulting people. So feel free to express any feedback you might have, but there is no need for insulting and swearing.
Did you not see the score for my original comment? 43 unanswered downvotes. How can you sit there and tell me that there's going to be an open and civil discussion that'll come from with that? I've already had a few people throw the stone with their illogical commentary about what I've pictured with their frail attempts to defend their favorite browser.
And I got all of that, just from stating the original comment I said prior to the edit. But the 'go to hell' part was not the original comment.
So before more people jump down my neck about being civil, you ought to know what other people float about that go about antagonizing users or expecting negativity to come their way before they cry out to admins and mods, for something they gaslighted to!
More fox the merrier. We have Icecat, Iceweasel, Palemoon, Librewolf, Tor Browser, Mullvad Browser... I'm sure I'm missing many more for desktop.
I was daily driving it but started crashing after an update. I'll be getting back to it tho, I'm sure there has been like 4 updates in the last 24 hours...
How does this compate to Mullvad Browser?
Think mullvad is better
Has anyone tried loading arkenfox user.js on there? That's the bare minimum for me to use a Firefox-based browser. I'm not using that without hardening.
I love options but does anybody else wish devs would put their heads together and focus on improving ONE app rather than launch a millon similar forks?
I love Mulls new browser fork of Firefox but on Gos it weakens the security due to a sandbox implementation not being as strong vs Chromium. I hate big corpo who don't. Brave seems to be the best mobile for now. Sucks but soon as sandboxing issue is fixed. Firefox FTW!