<story><title>Librefox: Firefox with privacy enhancements</title><url>https://github.com/intika/Librefox</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elagost</author><text>This seems like an a slightly more complete version of Firefox Profilemaker (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ffprofile.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ffprofile.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;p&gt;I personally use a fairly vanilla Firefox with a few addons and try to keep customization as default as possible. How will further differentiating yourself from the masses (especially since Firefox is already a minority browser) help with privacy, tracking, and fingerprinting? Why not at that point just change your user agent to Chrome&amp;#x2F;Win7 and run everything in a virtual machine?&lt;p&gt;edit: To that end, does anyone use browser forks (like Waterfox and Palemoon, or things like unGoogled Chromium) and seriously think they&amp;#x27;re better than the mainline browser? I see a lot of fair criticism for what Mozilla has done with Firefox (deprecating old extensions, Mr. Robot addons, Cliqz, etc) but it&amp;#x27;s pretty much the most trustworthy Internet company as far as I&amp;#x27;m aware. They seem to genuinely have good will and Open Source at their core, and these forks claiming that Mozilla is this monstrous organization looking to invade your privacy (along the lines of what Google does) seem a little silly to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JoshuaRLi</author><text>Forked software is usually reasonable, but for me, the sheer complexity of the graphical, interactive web sadly begets an exception for modern browsers. Even if much of the work is offloaded to the corporations backing modern free&amp;#x2F;libre browsers (e.g. keeping up with new web standards and technologies), it certainly goes without saying that rebasing with upstream or even just applying the latest security fixes is no trivial task I would entrust any browser fork with minimal developer backing with.&lt;p&gt;This problem is especially worsened with the kind of user base that firefox forks tend to attract, from what I have seen. These users tend to ask very high-level questions e.g. &amp;quot;is waterfox more secure than pale moon&amp;quot; and will usually blindly switch from one fork to the next based on poorly-backed, unsubstantial crowd opinion. No userbase means waning support + maintenance. If you ask me, I think in the very special case of browser technologies, it would be more beneficial if the developers and users of firefox forks directed their energies towards making generally desirable changes in upstream.</text></comment>
<story><title>Librefox: Firefox with privacy enhancements</title><url>https://github.com/intika/Librefox</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elagost</author><text>This seems like an a slightly more complete version of Firefox Profilemaker (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ffprofile.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ffprofile.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;p&gt;I personally use a fairly vanilla Firefox with a few addons and try to keep customization as default as possible. How will further differentiating yourself from the masses (especially since Firefox is already a minority browser) help with privacy, tracking, and fingerprinting? Why not at that point just change your user agent to Chrome&amp;#x2F;Win7 and run everything in a virtual machine?&lt;p&gt;edit: To that end, does anyone use browser forks (like Waterfox and Palemoon, or things like unGoogled Chromium) and seriously think they&amp;#x27;re better than the mainline browser? I see a lot of fair criticism for what Mozilla has done with Firefox (deprecating old extensions, Mr. Robot addons, Cliqz, etc) but it&amp;#x27;s pretty much the most trustworthy Internet company as far as I&amp;#x27;m aware. They seem to genuinely have good will and Open Source at their core, and these forks claiming that Mozilla is this monstrous organization looking to invade your privacy (along the lines of what Google does) seem a little silly to me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>worble</author><text>&amp;gt;and these forks claiming that Mozilla is this monstrous organization looking to invade your privacy&lt;p&gt;Do they claim that? I felt like most of the forks were made in good feeling, appreciating the work that Mozilla has done, but customising it in their own way&amp;#x2F;aligning vanilla FireFox with their views.</text></comment>