@simonzerafa @protonprivacy @mozillaofficial I'm not sure how official the account you linked here is, the branding feels off and it's not really noted in the bio this is their official new account.

Before December, Mozilla had their instance, and decided to remove it ( src. techcrunch.com/2024/09/17/mozi… )

Proton also really manage their PR like rotten potatoes imo ( theintercept.com/2025/01/28/pr… )

... both company also abuse marketing bs wording and praise AI. Not surprising they are criticized here.

Proton Mail Says It’s “Politically Neutral” While Praising Republican Party

The “privacy-first” company surprised its user base when CEO Andy Yen lauded Trump on social media.

^{Nikita Mazurov (The Intercept)}

@mray Thanks! Oh yes it's not easy to find the time and do a change and walk the path of frustration of changing habit and studying settings.

Thanks for the video, I'm already subscribed to this animator artist, James Lee.

He recently announced moving to GNU/Linux. It's not the best period to do this for artists, with Wayland, all container war etc...I don't remember I saw an update of them about how they succeed to make it. Certainly hard time ^ ^ I hope he found my blog post about it.

@praveen @darkbeth Thank you Elizabeth.

LibreWolf is just a layer of community reviewing in case Mozilla pushes something bad to their audience. My metaphor about the layer of ash on top of a fox works for this reason.

I also worry for the future of Firefox. I hope their executives will see larger community forming around forks, and it will make them find back their focus to privacy, and security. I'll be back to Firefox if they do that.

@BluesHarp Unfortunately, what fork of Chromium do you recommend then? Brave is a shady crypto project run by a less than nice person, Chrome & Edge I hope I don't have to explain, and Opera? I really hope I don't have to go any further.

Also, when Mozilla eventually goes, so does Librewolf, Waterfox, and the rest. There's no way that the Firefox forks will be able to pick up the pieces in time.

Unfortunately, I am stuck on Vivaldi because it has PWAs and isn't going to die.

@stemy @mullvadnet @torproject Both Tor Browser and Mullvad Browser are more hardcore about privacy than Librewolf. They block Javascript by default with Noscript addon (you can enable it per-site or globally), use advanced techniques to limit fingerprinting and are designed to be used with their respective privacy networks (Mullvad VPN / Tor).

This may break a lot of websites and increase latency. If privacy is more important to you than ease of use, they are the best in class. Otherwise, Librewolf is a good compromise.

NoScript, the old Firefox extension? I stopped using it because I started seeing third-party ads and cookies on the #NoScript website. Switched to #uMatrix.

I wish uMatrix was still maintained. It is excellent.

@stemy @davidrevoy @mullvadnet @torproject

I did but there are no names there. 🙁

I may sometimes use open-source tools that I don't know who made them. But I don't feel comfortable using them for a browser. If it's a honeypot created by intelligence agencies or North Korean hackers, I have no idea. 😬

@rejzor Yes, changing web browser can be difficult. My first hours with LibreWolf was a real maze. I'm really lucky I could speak about my issue on the Pepper&Carrot matrix room and received assistance from a more experienced user.

I updated on their bug tracker the thread that I found with the information I needed, for future users in the same situation as me.

@ibrahim_cris For sure, yes, this is something I want to see in the long run: how quick LibreWolf get patched and released to security vulnerabilities.

But so far, this was really educative: I now better understand many Firefox privacy options not activated by default and that I never knew of existence. If I go back to Firefox, I'll be a more advanced user knowing the settings and the about:config options.

@nekohayo Yes, I really like Gnome Web/Epiphany. I had also a look at the Plasma side, the Falkon browser.

And the more I think about my web browsing usage, the more I wonder why I want to keep all my browsing inside a single web browser.

Probably a habit I developed with the early web.

I might start to install more browsers and split up my web browsing habit depending on activities and the level of privacy and security I need for certain website.

@technikhil I just gave #Librewolf and #Zenbrowser a try. Both seem to work perfectly fine, and reimporting my date from #Firefox was easy (which seems logical since they're both based on Firefox).
I'm not switching now though. I took a minute to check my Firefox settings and opt out from everything that seemed not to be data privacy friendly.

I'm wondering if those forks are actually viable if Firefox dies one day... So for now I'd rather not cut the branch I've been sitting on for 2 decades, wait and see.

I like the look of Zen browser though, looks like arc!

@technikhil @louischance Yes, Zen Browser was on my list when I tested, beautiful interface and screenshot on their website.

> I'm wondering if those forks are actually viable if Firefox dies one day...

Louis: yes, this THE central real question about all these forks. I personally don't think any forks around could survive that.

@technikhil @louischance

forks can survive if the maintainer team is 'for the people'. Look at "Jellyfin", a fork of " emby". Still surviving.

@marnic Oui 😁 Mais faudrait commencer cette fondation avec un sacré budget pour avoir déjà une grosse poignée de dev à plein temps dessus.

Je verrai bien la Wikipedia fondation dessus. Il me semble que leur trésorerie et leur moyen technique et leur familiarité avec le publique ferait que si ils entraient dans ce game, ça ferait un acteur de poids très rapidement.