Why is everyone blowing this out of proportion ? The wording in the new terms of service was to define “sell” under california law which means to use your data within the browser, not to actually sell it.
I finally got moved over to Mozilla I am not moving to anything else for the next 10 years.
Ditching mozzilla doesn’t mean ditching firefox u can use a fork like librewolf for an almost exact same experience
Just FYI, ditching Mozilla doesn’t necessarily mean ditching “Firefox”. I’ve been a user of Firefox since it came out, switched to it from Netscape Navigator. On Saturday I decided I’d had enough of Mozilla’s corporate ass-kissery and moved to Waterfox. The process was:
Install Waterfox.
In Firefox and Waterfox, go to
about:supportand open the profile folder.Close Firefox and Waterfox.
Copy all contents of the Firefox profile folder to the Waterfox one, allowing overwrite.
Start up Waterfox. All my addons, history, login sessions, settings, EVERYTHING is exactly where I left it.
Same for most other Firefox forks. I did something similar with LibreWolf.
- note that if you do exactly that, you’ll miss out on the enhanced privacy of LibreWolf. Better to just import bookmarks and stuff like that.
Yeah, I’d imagine you need to set your settings up to non-default in Librewolf or else you’ll import your browsing history and signed-in sites and then Librewolf will dutifully delete it all when you close the browser lmao
That’s not it. That’s not even the default behavior. But LibreWolf includes a lot of different default settings for fingerprinting protection, tracking, etc. that are settings, and if you drop Firefox’s settings on top of it, they get overwritten and you lose the benefit.
Ah, makes sense (though one of those Librewolf default settings is to delete your history and cookies on logout). I went with Waterfox myself because I don’t consider my privacy needs to outweigh my convenience preferences that much, but it’s really good that Librewolf exists for those that do want privacy at the cost of annoyances. Being able to have that “fully hardened” experience in one click is huge, since the Venn diagram of “people with strict privacy needs” and “people with tech skills” is not a circle.
It’s the default? Might be, I’ve probably changed on day 1 and went on with my life.
Another option for the technically inclined is to create a second profile in their Firefox fork of choice and apply Arkenfox to it. It does require user discipline to open untrusted sites only in that profile, but works.
Ditching it for what?
I’ve been using librewolf and its been smooth so far; I had some trouble running a teams meeting with it, but then i had trouble with firefox too so 🤷♂️
Florp
The goo that makes farting sounds?
the user you’re replying to misspelled it, it’s Floorp. Yes it’s a goofy-ass name lmao
