So, I found some Firefox forks. Those would be: floorp, zen browser, tor browser and librewolf. Could anyone help me decide which one to use?

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    3 days ago

    Zen will give you the most functionality. Librewolf will give you the most privacy and security.

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    3 days ago

    librewolf as daily driver, mullvad for looking shit up on ecommerce sites with new ID each time

    tor if you are feeling paranoid that day.

    ungoogled chrome when none of the above work.

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      mullvad for looking shit up on ecommerce sites with new ID each time

      Is it sufficient? I’d always assumed it was easily targetable with the IP so I started using TOR for that purpose

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        tor has geo location issues.

        but yeah ideally that tactic should be used vpn, you aint wrong for it to be best, IP is leaking aint good.

        i am not sure how often isp will change ip and i am not sure how easy it is for them to link up fresh ID’s on mullvad though either.

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          I see.

          tor has geo location issues.

          Could you explain what you mean with this? I’m not sure I understand

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    3 days ago

    Whatever you end up choosing, make sure it gets regular updates. Not being up-to-date with security updates/patches negates any security/privacy you get.

    • I just started using it myself. I can’t see a difference between it and Firefox, which is a good thing because it means sites aren’t breaking. But it also makes me wonder just how much more private it is.

      I’ve been trained by experience that privacy is strongly correlated to web sites not working properly.

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        As far as I know, the only thing Waterfox does (differently from Firefox) is not collecting telemetry and having uBlock Origin installed by default. I haven’t noticed sites breaking either (at least, any more than they did on FF).

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    3 days ago

    In terms of use, librewolf feels exactly the same as firefox. I chose librewolf but zen is my 2nd pick try them both.

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    Mullvad browser is also another great Privacy web browser but probably be more suited if you have a active subscription to mullvad VPN since it’s point is to blend in with other mullvad VPN users.

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    My setup is librewolf as main, ungoogled chromium as backup for problematic sites.

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    3 days ago

    I’ve been using Zen and Librewolf, I recommend both of them but Librewolf will give you the privacy out of the box. A friend of mine uses Floorp and he seems happy with it.

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    waterfox doesnt get regular updates, look at their github, theres one guy. (not specifically adressed to you OP)

    i use librewolf and just turned some options on again so it doest delete everything when i shut it down.