Christophe B. Jul 28, 2023
If you're still using Chrome for performance reasons:
- Firefox is now faster than Chrome out-of-the-box
- Firefox uses less memory than Chrome
- Contrary to Chrome, Firefox does not restrict Ad blockers, which will make your browsing experience much faster (and safer).
Show threadnitrofuranoJul 28, 2023
@bladecoder and what about Waterfox? ;)
Show threadChristophe B. Jul 28, 2023
@nitrofurano Never tried that one and I'm not convinced it's better than a tweaked Firefox (also it seems to be based on an older version of Firefox)
Show threadnitrofuranoJul 28, 2023
@bladecoder so, which Firefox alternatives (based on Firefox and drm-free) would you recommend?
Show threads�d
@nitrofurano @bladecoder Firefox DRM is opt in and you can permanently disable it
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Show thread[moved] stereo grieverJul 29, 2023
@pl @nitrofurano @bladecoder that on desktop, and on Android, if you have F-Droid, use Fennec (fork with a little amount of patches, fast-tracking to upstream)
Show threadnitrofuranoJul 29, 2023
@selfisekai @pl @bladecoder thanks!
Show threadGourdJul 29, 2023

@selfisekai @pl @nitrofurano @bladecoder Fennec F-Droid also has arbitrary extension support in a stable release! (Standard Android Firefox only allows extensions from a supported list by Mozilla in stable, and arbitrary extensions in Beta.)

You have to do a weird thing called a Custom Collection to make extensions available to it then, but it'll support 95% of Firefox extensions then. (Some will have UI weirdness on phone.)

Show threaduhmmmJul 30, 2023

@selfisekai @pl @nitrofurano @bladecoder

Thanks !

I didn't understand what the heck Fennec was !

Show threadnitrofuranoJul 29, 2023
@pl @bladecoder one of the problems is that is turned on by default, and the other one is that they started on implementing it - and how easily we will be able to disable it in the next versions?
Show threads�dJul 29, 2023
@nitrofurano are you annoyed by the code being bundled or activated? Firefox for me on Android asks for consent to actually load DRM content
Show threadnitrofuranoJul 29, 2023
@pl both, actually!!! xD
Show threadm0xEEJul 29, 2023
@nitrofurano
That's exactly what it is about — the defaults. My FF has all telemetry, WebP and VP9 disabled. Has all the necessary exts: uBO, LibRedirect, DecentralEyes, ForgetMeNot and Privacy Possum + a few others I like. And its UI is *heavily* tweaked. I doubt it's any different from LIbreWolf at this point. But were I starting afresh, I'd probably go with LibreWolf because saner defaults make sense.
@pl @bladecoder
Show threadm0xEEJul 29, 2023
@nitrofurano
One more thing: you get security updates earlier with base FF, forks take some time at least for the patches to get rebased and to get built for all platforms — but I'm pretty sure it doesn't take a great deal of time 🤷
@pl @bladecoder
Show threadRJul 30, 2023
@nitrofurano Why should I disable WebP and VP9?
Show threadlil5  🚲 🇳🇱Jul 30, 2023
@tealcows @nitrofurano @m0xee I’m confused about this as well
Show threadnitrofuranoJul 30, 2023
@lil5 @tealcows i was thinking webp was just a format, not that obscure - i saw that it took a long while for a gimp and imagemagick support... :S