Zen Browser
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Just stumbled upon this project, seems rather new as my DNS blocked its domain by default for being too new hehe… Anyone had a chance to try it yet? Its got some hefty promises, like having equally strong privacy features as Librewolf. I’ll be giving it ago at least, almost sounds a bit too good to be true…

  • jay@mbin.zerojay.com
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    24 days ago

    Tried it a bit yesterday on Windows. Opened a Github link in it and Windows Defender killed the app saying it was a threat. Definitely a false positive but seemed odd to see the entire app just die instantly, lol.

  • ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    Floorp is literally running with tons of optimizations and is shifting to the standard FF release instead of long term support build in their next major release. The optimizations though are like front and center, and it has TONS of privacy toggles and features.

    That comparison is… Self serving let’s say.

  • soyboy77@lemmy.ml
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    22 days ago

    I love options but does anybody else wish devs would put their heads together and focus on improving ONE app rather than launch a millon similar forks?

  • BoxEbony@lemmy.ml
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    24 days ago

    nobody uses iceweasel? For those who don’t know, it is the version of firefox cleaned up by non ‘libre’ code mainly from debian and then taken over by parabola linux. For me it is the best together with mullvad.

    • Allero@lemmy.today
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      24 days ago

      I was under the impression IceWeasel changed to IceCat.

      And, honestly, from all I could remember, the default protections are so strong a good half of sites doesn’t even work properly lol

      Typical GNU maximalism.

      (But yeah - it really blocks all the bad stuff and doesn’t do anything you don’t ask it to do, not even call for updates by default)

      • BoxEbony@lemmy.ml
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        24 days ago

        icecat is based on the LTS version, iceweasel the rolling-release. I have been using iceweasel for almost a year and all the sites I have used work

        • Allero@lemmy.today
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          24 days ago

          I see - thanks for clarification!

          Got confused because beforehand there was GNU IceWeasel (now GNU IceCat), which is now separate from IceWeasel. Quite a shitshow.

  • Noxious@fedia.io
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    24 days ago

    Has anyone tried loading arkenfox user.js on there? That’s the bare minimum for me to use a Firefox-based browser. I’m not using that without hardening.

  • OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml
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    24 days ago

    I love Mulls new browser fork of Firefox but on Gos it weakens the security due to a sandbox implementation not being as strong vs Chromium. I hate big corpo who don’t. Brave seems to be the best mobile for now. Sucks but soon as sandboxing issue is fixed. Firefox FTW!

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
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      24 days ago

      Until something comes out saying otherwise, Mullvad browser seems to be the best privacy wise.

      I believe Zen is better than default Firefox out of the box, but you can get the same effect in regular Firefox by toggling some options.

      I liked Zen for the UI changes. It’s nice having the tabs on the side and a customizable sidebar

      • Frozyre@kbin.melroy.org
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        24 days ago

        I did but all you fucking morons are having your knee jerk reactions. It’s what I expected from dumb fucking fanboys with no lives who swear their allegiance to Firefox. Fuck you. lol

        • Allero@lemmy.today
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          24 days ago

          A bit more politeness goes a very long way.

          Try being more civil, this will earn you way more support, especially since you want to change people’s minds.

    • ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world
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      24 days ago

      Try Floorp.

      Also, maybe don’t compare clean chrome install to FF with a half dozen extensions installed. Extensions like Greasemonkey run literally any script you tell them to. An errant line of code and there goes your memory.

      Try again, apples to apples dude.

        • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
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          23 days ago

          @Frozyre please keep it a bit friendly. I understand you are mad, but there’s no point in treating other people like this.

          • Frozyre@kbin.melroy.org
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            22 days ago

            Tell the assholes to keep it friendly themselves. I’m talking the fanboys. They who can’t handle differing opinions have no place in open discussion on any platform. Period.

            • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
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              22 days ago

              You actually started calling them to go to hell.

              Open discussions are of course fine, but your tone isn’t. Since we aren’t talking about handling different opinions now, you are just insulting people. So feel free to express any feedback you might have, but there is no need for insulting and swearing.

  • RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    24 days ago

    There privacy is better than regular Firefox due to disabling telemetry etc, but librewolf does way more to protect against fingerprinting. The browser itself is quite good, although it shows that it’s in early development. Also I disabled send a do not track signal as it is used for fingerprinting

    • Nobilmantis@feddit.it
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      24 days ago

      Also I disabled send a do not track signal as it is used for fingerprinting

      Doesn’t this only make sense if it is off by default on that browser? I assume if it is on by default, most people will just keep it on, thus making users of that browser that turn it off stand out more. No?

      • RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        24 days ago

        Firefox doesn’t enable it by default, so if you turn it of any chance of being perceived as just another Firefox user is gone. It may not be a measurable difference but as basically no site respects it and those that do aren’t a big problem in the first place it doesn’t matter all that much

  • Gemini24601@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    I’ve checked it out, and it looks really good, sort of like arc browser. It’s very stylish, and since it’s Firefox-based, supports ublock origin. It’s obviously not finished yet though, so I’ll stay on Floorp until it reaches beta or stable. I’m totally switching once it gets there

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
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    24 days ago

    I like it so far. The weakness seems to be the size of the dev team and if the project has a future. Hopefully they are planning accordingly.

    I went through a handful of threads and it seems mostly positive so far. One choice I wasn’t sure about was that they’re considering having a built in adblocker (based on something that’s not ublock origin). I would prefer if the browser just shipped with ublock origin instead.

    https://www.privacyguides.org/en/browser-extensions/

    As far as privacy focused browsers go, Mull seems to be the best still. I was exploring Zen for my day to day browser.

  • curry@programming.dev
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    22 days ago

    More fox the merrier. We have Icecat, Iceweasel, Palemoon, Librewolf, Tor Browser, Mullvad Browser… I’m sure I’m missing many more for desktop.