So, I found some Firefox forks. Those would be: floorp, zen browser, tor browser and librewolf. Could anyone help me decide which one to use?
What would be a good option for the iPhone environment (changing phones not an option)? There are four different Tor browser apps from different developers. Using DuckDuckGo right now, but any other better options?
Onion browser from Mike Tigas was recommended as alternative to official one for iPhone by developers. For normal browsers you currently have Firefox, Firefox focus and Orion from kagi. Those options are safest ones from what I know on iPhone
Thanks, looks like the Onion from MT has quite bad reviews. Hmm.
- Zen is a little too fancy for me and it may contain telemetry.
- Haven’t tried floorp, but seems promising (may try it later).
- Tor browser if you want at most privacy with actual IP masking.
- Librewolf is my favourite, it’s fast and simple. Yet with good privacy features turned on by default.
I use LibreWolf and Zen, mostly Zen. LibreWolf if you want the closest experience to vanilla Firefox. I personally like the side positioning for tabs in Zen with tab pinning and built in workspaces.
Zen will give you the most functionality. Librewolf will give you the most privacy and security.
Tor Browser will give you most privacy and security, but it can be considered overkill for everyday use. Librewolf takes second place.
Well. I don’t really think of TOR as a browser but I digress.
Correctif you ain’t running Tor on the router, you ain’t living proper
Zen browser was my favourite but this put me off:
Librewolf.
GNU-Icecat
( I use librewolf, but have IC just for casual browsing).
librewolf as daily driver, mullvad for looking shit up on ecommerce sites with new ID each time
tor if you are feeling paranoid that day.
ungoogled chrome when none of the above work.
mullvad for looking shit up on ecommerce sites with new ID each time
Is it sufficient? I’d always assumed it was easily targetable with the IP so I started using TOR for that purpose
tor has geo location issues.
but yeah ideally that tactic should be used vpn, you aint wrong for it to be best, IP is leaking aint good.
i am not sure how often isp will change ip and i am not sure how easy it is for them to link up fresh ID’s on mullvad though either.
I see.
tor has geo location issues.
Could you explain what you mean with this? I’m not sure I understand
Recommend websites will use your ip to serve your geos products. Tor randomly pops out in mostly EU countries
Whatever you end up choosing, make sure it gets regular updates. Not being up-to-date with security updates/patches negates any security/privacy you get.
Anyone know of a desktop equivalent to IronFox?
prob librewolf i use ironfox on mobile and librewolf on my pc and its very similar
Mullvad browser is also another great Privacy web browser but probably be more suited if you have a active subscription to mullvad VPN since it’s point is to blend in with other mullvad VPN users.
My setup is librewolf as main, ungoogled chromium as backup for problematic sites.
I’m using Waterfox. Been great so far.
I just started using it myself. I can’t see a difference between it and Firefox, which is a good thing because it means sites aren’t breaking. But it also makes me wonder just how much more private it is.
I’ve been trained by experience that privacy is strongly correlated to web sites not working properly.
As far as I know, the only thing Waterfox does (differently from Firefox) is not collecting telemetry and having uBlock Origin installed by default. I haven’t noticed sites breaking either (at least, any more than they did on FF).
It didn’t have uBlock origin installed by default on Android. But, regardless, it seems fine so far!
I was using (and really liked) Librewolf until I heard that they were having trouble keeping up with Firefox updates. Now I’m using the Phonenix configurations for Firefox and keeping the FF updates separate from the privacy configuration settings. Avoiding forks lets you get the best of both worlds.
https://github.com/celenityy/Phoenix https://codeberg.org/celenity/Phoenix/wiki/Comparison
In terms of use, librewolf feels exactly the same as firefox. I chose librewolf but zen is my 2nd pick try them both.
