Asking after the privacy debacle and manifest. I’m not keeping up closely, but iirc Firefox is the browser recommended because of Ublock. After the privacy data issue I’ve noticed broken trust from Firefox users, recommendations in favor of switching browsers, and predictions saying Firefox is going downhill fast and that their forks won’t be maintained for much longer.

So I’m here asking the seasoned sailors’ thoughts, aye. Is this just a storm passing by or are you really considering jumping ship?

  • DARbarian@fedia.io
    242·
    2 days ago

    Nope. LibreWolf & Waterfox are top-tier, Zen and Mullvad Browsers aren’t bad at all

    • EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      I will say as nice as Zen seems (I agree that it’s not bad), I don’t really like the whole “vertical tabs” shtick. I mean, I can see why some people would like that, but personally I never got into it. It just looks weird to me and I like seeing more of my tab names (weirdly enough that’s exactly what a lot of pro-vertical users claim is good about them lol).

      Also, from a privacy standpoint, not a huge fan personally of the fact that unlike LibreWolf, Zen Browser doesn’t have ResistFingerprinting enabled by default (not sure if it’s even in there tbh).

      • quickenparalysespunk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        i agree with wanting see more of tab title. for people who regularly keep 50+ tabs open, that is a pipe dream.

        if tabs are so many that their iconized anyway, making the tab bar vertical and iconized isn’t much difference.

        and if the bar would expand on hover (hopefully in near future), like in Brave (not sure if it’s a Chrome feature), then it can be wide enough to see plenty of title without reducing the webpage size most of the time.