Do you use any forks instead of default Firefox? If yes, which ones and why?

  • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
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    I was also looking for a fork. Major concern of such fork is, if I can trust the developers and package maintainers (in Linux), and if its up to date very close to original Firefox. That eliminates almost all forks. Librewolf was a candidate I would have installed and tried, but its missing a feature: it does not have builtin support for passwords. I know why its excluded and understand that. I know how to use KeePass application to store my passwords. But I personally want it in the browser builtin without any additional applications.

    BTW no, my reply is not a request for alternatives. I just wanted to point out a missing feature in Librewolf.

    • Jack@lemmy.ca
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      Librewolf was a candidate I would have installed and tried, but its missing a feature: it does not have builtin support for passwords.

      I always disable password management by Firefox, but I noped out of LibreWolf because it doesn’t allow users to block all cookies and then whitelist domains for cookies.

      I suspect what a lot of people want is a custom version of Firefox with the garbage surgically removed before compile; where the opt-in options still exist for:

      • browser-kept passwords,
      • browser-kept payment details,
      • blocking cookies,
      • whitelisting cookie domains,
      • crash reports,
      • remote changes between updates,
      • scanning everything you download for danger,
      • scanning every site you go to for danger,
      • etc. .