I switched from FireFox to LibreWolf and I've been recommending it to friends. It's a custom fork of FireFox, but with the most important privacy and security settings already built-in / enabled. It's got uBlockOrigin already installed and by default uses a privacy-focused search engine.

I think this kind of setup makes for a better browser experience, as it immediately protects the user while still giving the user the option to disable things to better tailor to their security and privacy posture. Other browsers tend to do this the other way around.

It's probably wise to note here some caution before using LibreWolf as one's default browser. Some sites don't function well with the "Enhanced Tracking Protection" (ETP) feature enabled for them. Issues surrounding this may appear as login pages that don't load or timestamps on webpages that are in UTC instead of your local timezone. This has only appeared on a handful of websites, but they do tend to be popular sites. Generally a quick-fix is to just add the site to the exception list for ETP, but a safer but more time-intensive way might be to try to figure out whether the data the site needs can be spoofed or specifically allowed instead.

good news, but also bad side.

android's dominance may not be declining. and recent events suggest, google is locking android further. basically closing pixel's hardware related code.

#VivaldiBrowser Has a good #privacypolicy, is #European, and is 95% #FOSS. It removes the #googlecrap from the #Chromium code before using it in their #browser
Also, it lets adding blocking sources and tweaking them, which is a must-have since their ad blocking is no the greatest, THB.

It has an overall good balance between privacy and functionality, and this is why I believe it should be added in the list.

vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-diffe…

vivaldi.com/blog/technology/wh….

Built using Chromium, but different from Chrome | Vivaldi

What should you make of the fact that Vivaldi shares its engine with Google Chrome?

^{Team Vivaldi (Vivaldi Technologies)}

@Tutanota, for me the best is Vivaldi as main Browser, apart of the most feature rich one out there by far, it has a great company ethic respect the user, good privacy and a great helpfull community, and it is an Browser from the EU which is on eye level to the US browsers.

I think in the current situation it is very recommended to promote EU products and services to gain sovereignity against the US hegemony, and same as using Tuta or Proton, also in browsers it gains importance.

Sadly, apart of Vivaldi, there are only two other Browsers from the EU, Mullvad, very private but somewhat basic in other features and Konqueror by KDE which is for Linux only.

I post this just to show how I wanted to reply to the last post in the conversation from the screenshot, but I couldn't because @Azarilh blocked me.

“I admit this
If this would happen (which I really hope will not) I will stay with #VivaldiBrowser for as much as it would be able to survive, and then move to a #GeckoBrowserEngine-based #browser.
After all, #Chromium doesn't invade my #privacy, as #Bing, #Google, #Yahoo etc. do.”

Am I wrong?