👾Oct 5, 2024
Parade du Grotesque 💀

At this stage, honestly, we should all stop using Firefox to send a clear message to Mozilla.

Chromium, IceFox and, in the future Servo and Ladybird: anything is better than the dumpster fire that Firefox is quickly becoming.

I would also love for the major Linux distros (and/or the Linux foundation) to take a stand and hard fork Firefox to remove all the nonsense that is constantly added.

Boost if you agree.

Oct 4, 2024 at 2:32pmWeb
Show threadAngua Oct 4, 2024
@ParadeGrotesque

I had mostly moved to Vivaldi.
Now I have the hang of workspaces & managed to export / import bookmarks via HTML, I have dumped Firefox.
I tried LibreWolf for a while but it's crap.
Show threadStéphane Charette 🇨🇦Oct 4, 2024
@ParadeGrotesque Does Chromium suffer from the same problem as Chrome, where they no longer support running the ad blocking plugins?
Show threadSyntaxError  Oct 4, 2024
@ParadeGrotesque That's not gonna happen
Show threadmirabilosOct 4, 2024
@ParadeGrotesque Chromium is definitely not better. Unsure about the others yet. lynx is better but only a replacement for 80% or so of pages.
Show threadbotvolutionOct 4, 2024

@ParadeGrotesque

Palemoon ?

Show threadParade du Grotesque 💀Oct 4, 2024

@botvolution

Nah

Show threadbotvolutionOct 4, 2024
@ParadeGrotesque
Well,it's a fork
Show threadReid Oct 4, 2024

@ParadeGrotesque tbh I don’t think distro-level forks are all that feasible considering how much junk there is to remove and how deep some of it goes into the codebase (LibreWolf already talked about how much junk there is just for the ai chatbot stuff, to the point they opted to instead hard disable and hide the functionality rather than remove it)

that said, maybe it’s possible to get devs from several forks to work together on a cleansed Firefox codebase, I could see the likes of Tor, Mullvad, and LibreWolf all being interested in something like this if there’s enough human time to dedicate to the task

Show threadParade du Grotesque 💀Oct 4, 2024

@Reiddragon

Interesting. Got a link to the libre wolf blog entry or some such?

Show threadReid Oct 4, 2024
@ParadeGrotesque I believe it was stated in a Github issue, don’t have a link to it on hand, tho
Show threadReid Oct 4, 2024

@ParadeGrotesque yeah, can’t find it, sorry

someone sent it to me on Fedi a while back but my notifs are a mess from a shitpost that blew up since then

Show threadXerz 💗Oct 4, 2024
@ParadeGrotesque might as well switch to @gnome Web at this point, why not
Show threadParade du Grotesque 💀Oct 4, 2024

@xerz @gnome

No ad blocker.

Show threadXerz 💗Oct 4, 2024
@ParadeGrotesque @gnome it comes with one ootb + you can set content filters + there's experimental WebExtensions support
Show threadFlominatorOct 4, 2024
@ParadeGrotesque If you want to keep up the diversity of engines as well, Chromium might not be a good choice, I think
Show threadxmanmonkOct 4, 2024
@ParadeGrotesque I think librewolf is where I'm headed.
Show threadSyntaxError  Oct 4, 2024
@xmanmonk @ParadeGrotesque I use librewolf and it works fine. Sometimes it seems to freeze a bit. When that happens I restart it, and everything works fine again.
Show thread👾Oct 5, 2024
@syntaxerror @xmanmonk @ParadeGrotesque
the built-in resist fingerprint seems to make librewolf a bit more buggy. if you aren't worried about fingerprinting try disabling it. if you are worried, try disabling it and see if the canvasblocker plugin works better
Show threadIrishMASMSOct 4, 2024

@ParadeGrotesque

See: https://defcon.social/@Irishmasms/113250512537881371

I've done some testing, this is my current recommendation

IrishMASMS (@[email protected])

@[email protected] @[email protected] I've been migrating to @[email protected] and to #librewolf https://librewolf.net/ #vivaldibrowser is a great, polished & defanged chromium based browser Same for librewolf. Both can leverage my fave add-ons Give them a try

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Show thread🐧DaveNull🐧 ☣️pResident Evil☣Oct 5, 2024

@ParadeGrotesque As much as Mozilla is doing an outstanding job to enshittify Firefox. No, not "anything" is better.

Let's not forget chromium is total shit, nothing in it is configurable and it phones home (google servers). And chromium's fork too are constantly sending info to google servers…

Not to mention crap like brave 🤮

Mozilla is destroying Firefox, and there's really that much alternatives… expect a few forks “because Firefox UI sucks, chrome is better" 🤮, with 1-2 maintainers each…

Show threadStephen De GabrielleOct 5, 2024
@ParadeGrotesque I’ve not been following? Has Mozilla leadership abandoned their flagship products USP ?
Show threadParade du Grotesque 💀Oct 5, 2024

@spdegabrielle

See here and follow the thread:

https://mastodon.green/@fietsria/113249682640873670

Ria Glas (@[email protected])

@[email protected] why?

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