Web Browser General - Fuck Chromium. All my homies hate Chromium.

[Sooty Soot]

Im currently maining brave but I would like to have a taste of other browsers. I have tried firefox before and its good for what it is but I would like to know what to have as a secondary. Currently caught between Firefox, Librewolf and Mullvad. Which should I get? Any fork of Firefox is also good. I didnt like Librewolf the first time I tried it cause it was too slow and consumed too much RAM.

Most Chromium based browsers will be gimped privacy-wise, not just in terms of what extensions or settings you have access to, but right down to the base foundations of the source code. I can't remember it off the top of my head, but there's an extension I saw that has a Firefox exclusive feature purely because the function it uses is only available in Firefox.
Frankly, I'm amazed at just how many people use Brave, based off the thread's poll at least.

What do you MEAN 2017 is retro?

It's been nine years, grandpa...

 

[teriyakiburns]

Im currently maining brave but I would like to have a taste of other browsers. I have tried firefox before and its good for what it is but I would like to know what to have as a secondary.

Waterfox is pretty decent. Strips out most of the privacy-invading shit from firefox and adds a couple of its own unique features, but it's not completely gimped in the process.

 

[funwithshemales69]

Most Chromium based browsers will be gimped privacy-wise, not just in terms of what extensions or settings you have access to, but right down to the base foundations of the source code. I can't remember it off the top of my head, but there's an extension I saw that has a Firefox exclusive feature purely because the function it uses is only available in Firefox.
Frankly, I'm amazed at just how many people use Brave, based off the thread's poll at least.

All mainstream browsers are fucked. Google is one of the majority shareholders I think in firefox, so theyre basically controlled opposition. So you cant be too sure. Im not so focused on privacy beyond surface level ISPs dont see me, the government doesnt see me and the network interceptors dont see me. I want something which works well and is functional.

 

[Wol]

All mainstream browsers are fucked. Google is one of the majority shareholders I think in firefox, so theyre basically controlled opposition. So you cant be too sure. Im not so focused on privacy beyond surface level ISPs dont see me, the government doesnt see me and the network interceptors dont see me. I want something which works well and is functional.

For your case, anything that utilizes HTTPS (HTTP + TLS) and encrypted DNS (e.g. DNS over TLS, DNS over HTTPS, DNSCrypt) usually prevents ISPs and any network sniffers from seeing what exactly you’re accessing through data in transit, aside from seeing destination servers or their ISPs/hosting providers but most certainly not domains.

Unless you use Tor, you’re not going to be fully free from being linked by government subpoena, but there are browser features or certain extensions that can perform regular cookie flushing, tracker blocking, block cross-site scripting (XSS), and perform some cross-site referrer blocking to at least prevent regular tracking across the sites and services you visit.

For the most part, I’ve found a hardened Firefox is usually a decent choice for moderate privacy when the add-ons UBlock Origin or derived (e.g. AdNauseam), Cookie Autodeleter, and Noscript are installed, the options to receive data from and to send telemetry to Mozilla are disabled, and that strict tracker + fingerprinting blocking and HTTPS only mode is enabled. You can use Arkenfox to help with the config too. If your OS doesn’t support encrypted DNS lookup, Firefox does offer the option to do it by itself.

In place of Firefox, derived browsers like Librewolf or Waterfox might also be fine options.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

In place of Firefox, derived browsers like Librewolf or Waterfox might also be fine options.

They are. Just note that the former needs to change one setting in about : config (clear the URL in browser.safebrowsing.provider.mozilla.updateURL) while the later still connects to specific firefox services like geolocation and other spyware platforms like Matomo.

 

[Wol]

They are. Just note that the former needs to change one setting in about : config (clear the URL in browser.safebrowsing.provider.mozilla.updateURL) while the later still connects to specific firefox services like geolocation and other spyware platforms like Matomo.
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At least in normal Firefox, there should be the options in about:config to disable geolocation or otherwise alter other parameters including the provider URL under the geo. subkeys. I think these are in recent versions of Waterfox if I'm not mistaken.

 

[funwithshemales69]

For your case, anything that utilizes HTTPS (HTTP + TLS) and encrypted DNS (e.g. DNS over TLS, DNS over HTTPS, DNSCrypt) usually prevents ISPs and any network sniffers from seeing what exactly you’re accessing through data in transit, aside from seeing destination servers or their ISPs/hosting providers but most certainly not domains.

Unless you use Tor, you’re not going to be fully free from being linked by government subpoena, but there are browser features or certain extensions that can perform regular cookie flushing, tracker blocking, block cross-site scripting (XSS), and perform some cross-site referrer blocking to at least prevent regular tracking across the sites and services you visit.

For the most part, I’ve found a hardened Firefox is usually a decent choice for moderate privacy when the add-ons UBlock Origin or derived (e.g. AdNauseam), Cookie Autodeleter, and Noscript are installed, the options to receive data from and to send telemetry to Mozilla are disabled, and that strict tracker + fingerprinting blocking and HTTPS only mode is enabled. You can use Arkenfox to help with the config too. If your OS doesn’t support encrypted DNS lookup, Firefox does offer the option to do it by itself.

In place of Firefox, derived browsers like Librewolf or Waterfox might also be fine options.

I use Tor about 50% of the time, on brave and on the actual tor browser. Tor browser is bulky but I would like to use some firefox fork which runs well (which preferably isnt main firefox cause that feels like a google plant, even if its quite good).