Asking after the privacy debacle and manifest. I'm not keeping up closely, but iirc Firefox is the browser recommended because of Ublock. After the privacy data issue I've noticed broken trust from Firefox users, recommendations in favor of switching browsers, and predictions saying Firefox is going downhill fast and that their forks won't be maintained for much longer.

So I'm here asking the seasoned sailors' thoughts, aye. Is this just a storm passing by or are you really considering jumping ship?

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[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 42 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I switched to https://librewolf.net/ on Desktop and https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox on Android.

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

Using this as an opportunity to promote the LibreWolf community on Lemmy: !librewolf@lemmy.ml as well as their new Mastodon account: @librewolf@chaos.social

I'm not affiliated with them btw

[–] quickenparalysespunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I've been trying ironfox but it crashes when i tap "customize homepage"

have you experienced this?

[–] three@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Me too! I'm using graphene, are you?

[–] ItJustDonn@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is Vanadium not as ideal compared to Ironfox? I'm new to GOS

[–] three@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

According to the devs vanadium is preferred for security, something about Firefox not having comparable sand boxing (?). Not sure, they wrote in length about the reasoning but at a certain point my eyes started glazing over.

I've been using Firefox for a long time on desktop and mobile, so when I switched to graphene I just kept with it.

I may try to switch over to vanadium though seeing as I'm already in "switching" mode.

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

I tried Vanadium when the install was fresh. The adblocking is just not that good... For example, on one of the sites it blocked the ads, but left out the giant HTML elements they used to be in.

[–] quickenparalysespunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

yeah, on graphene.

hmm can't find mention of a bug for this combination. barely even the two mentioned in the same webpage.

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm also on GrapheneOS running IronFox and customizing the homepage works fine for me.

[–] quickenparalysespunk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

maybe it's caused by graphene+ironfox+some other setting or other app

[–] three@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Iron fox was updated over night for me and now no more crashing.

[–] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 4 points 1 month ago

I just tried now for the first time and no it doesn't crash when I press "customize homepage".

[–] Jinx@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Same, I’m done with Firefox / Mozilla…
Librewolf, Waterfox, Floorp seem like viable options.

[–] anzo@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Let me add FireDragon, a Floorp fork with librewolf and other changes.