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Just pick one - All the Fox functionality without bloatware

Librewolf - https://librewolf.net/

Waterfox - https://www.waterfox.com/

Zen Browser - https://zen-browser.app/

More browsers here - https://alternativeto.net/category/browsers/firefox-based/

You can also use this add to disable the ~~shitload~~ ai function in many search engines in one go

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-ai/

GitHub page - https://github.com/jruns/disable-ai

You can find all the links on Mastodon<

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[–] mmmac@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

Last I used librewolf/waterfox they lagged behind a few days on security updates, so I switched to regular Firefox with arkenfox user.js

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago

Hell yeah shoutout to alternativeto.net! Fucking great site.

[–] scala@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Does librewolf or water fox have a mobile version that syncs tabs to desktop like official Firefox ?

No, but you can use Ironfox or another Android Firefox fork and have working sync.

[–] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Waterfox does, I use it.

Edit: On Android.

[–] cmhe@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago
[–] schwim@piefed.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I use Librewolf everywhere but android where I use Firefox. The sync feature works perfectly between the different brands. Librewolf does not currently offer a mobile browser.

[–] kyonshi@piefed.social 1 points 20 hours ago

I use fennec, but librewolf proposes using IronFox

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[–] hubobes@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (25 children)

And at some point someone will tell me what is so horrifying about these new features? Mozilla might be the only company trying to provide privacy first AI features. What exactly is so bad here? You can even disable these features if you do not like them at all.

[–] cambodia@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Mozilla is still the only company maintaining an alternative to Chromium (there's also webkit if you count Apple). Without Firefox you can't have Librewolf or other alternatives.

Mozilla is not perfect but people really need to stop treating them in a purely binary fashion (you are either horrible or are perfect).

You can criticize Mozilla for the direction they are taking with Firefox, but also you can argue that being a hardcore privacy-centric browser will kill interest for Firefox even faster.

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't know the others but for me, it's the constant bugging with their users. I've used Firefox since the beginning, and they have made bad choices before, but this is the last straw. I'm tired of circumventing these choices, sometimes doing so is not even that transparent as a "kill switch" and users had to find strings in a cryptic about::config page, for example.

More important, I don't want so-called AI in my life. I couldn't care less about it. I won't use it unless it helps me to find some scientific conclusion that advances our culture, and I'm not talking something huge, I'm not saying it shouldn't be used at all. However, any use of AI for cotidian achievable tasks is morally unacceptable for me, and I'd ask for everyone a space for reflection on whether it is something filling a necessity in their lives. So, I guess it's a rupture for me with Mozilla. I can't use their product because I find it fundamentally wrong to support the massive use of technologies that barely do any good to society, and none to the planet. It's not about another little discrepancy on features and settings, it's about not giving people like me the platform to shout "fuck it, I don't want it, stop it now".

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 4 points 1 day ago

I'm still mad at them for forcing that useless Pocket icon in the toolbar.

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[–] Valarie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

I use Iceraven for my phone

Here is a github link for the android app https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser

[–] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

I use Floorp on desktop. Since I got used to it, I just can't live without that advanced sidebar. Being able to open the mobile versions of web pages right on the side is just too useful.

[–] anticonnor@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Any recommendations for iOS? I switched to Librewolf on my Linux pc and Fennec on my Android phone, but still have Firefox on my iPad. Looking for good alternatives.

[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] anticonnor@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (6 children)

True, I really hate iOS. I only got this iPad for the Apple Pencil and Procreate. I usually try to keep hardware until it dies, but I may need to dump this iPad for my sanity.

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[–] yoshisaur@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Haven't used iOS in a while, but I remember Orion being really good. It can install chrome extensions and Firefox add-ons.

[–] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

Vivaldi has been my pick for a bit. It can install Chrome add-ons but not Firefox.

They also have taken a stance not to include genAI:

https://vivaldi.com/blog/keep-exploring/

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